{"id":2904,"date":"2011-03-04T10:11:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T14:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2011-03-04T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T14:11:19","slug":"year-2-month-3-day-4-and-the-straw-boss-hollered-well-damn-your-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-3-day-4-and-the-straw-boss-hollered-well-damn-your-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 3, Day 4: And The Straw Boss Hollered &#8216;Well Damn Your Soul!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Courier-Press (KY) runs an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courierpress.com\/news\/2011\/feb\/21\/whitfield-pushing-to-chop-epa-rules\/\">article about another House Republican who&#8217;s gunning for the EPA<\/a>.  Because Kentucky is a coal state, this guy is in their pocket, and he wants to remove the EPA&#8217;s authority to regulate emissions in order to make the lives of the mining companies easier.  Easier for Kentuckians who&#8217;re part of the profit chain from Big Coal, too \u2014 at least in the short run.  In the long run?  Don&#8217;t even ask.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The recent Republican attempts to defund or defang the Environmental Protection Agency are examples of short-term, politically-driven thinking at its most egregious.  Rep. Whitfield knows perfectly well that the current Congress will never pass any legislation addressing the threat of global climate change, since a majority of its members were elected with the help of money from the petroleum and coal industries.  The problem that we face is that the greenhouse effect is a result of the laws of physics and chemistry; climate change is inherently long-term and non-political.  While muzzling the EPA may benefit Kentucky&#8217;s economy for a few years, does anyone seriously believe that the coal companies will really care about the state and its citizens once the coal&#8217;s all gone, the mountains are leveled and the streams poisoned?  By carrying out the bidding of his corporate masters, Rep. Whitfield is doing a disservice both to his constituents and to the country as a whole; by treating the environment and its advocates as enemies, conservatives make a livable future for our descendants more and more unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courier-Press (KY) runs an article about another House Republican who&#8217;s gunning for the EPA. Because Kentucky is a coal state, this guy is in their pocket, and he wants to remove the EPA&#8217;s authority to regulate emissions in order to make the lives of the mining companies easier. Easier for Kentuckians who&#8217;re part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[467,386,304,207],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-assholes","tag-coal","tag-epa","tag-idiots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2971,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions\/2971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}