{"id":5280,"date":"2021-05-31T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5280"},"modified":"2021-05-31T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T18:00:11","slug":"america-is-making-climate-promises-again-should-anyone-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5280","title":{"rendered":"America is making climate promises again. Should anyone care?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;in the context of US politics, it reflects the will of a party that is likely to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/republicans-2020-gains-in-the-house-set-them-up-well-for-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lose control of Congress in 2022<\/a>. Even in the best-case scenario, it won\u2019t hold Congress all the way through 2030. It can\u2019t help but rely, for any 2030 goal, on some help from Republicans \u2014 which it can\u2019t rely on and certainly can\u2019t promise to the international community.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22401917\/biden-climate-plan-summit-republicans-congress-midterm-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22401917\/biden-climate-plan-summit-republicans-congress-midterm-elections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;in the context of US politics, it reflects the will of a party that is likely to lose control of Congress in 2022. Even in the best-case scenario, it won\u2019t hold Congress all the way through 2030. It can\u2019t help but rely, for any 2030 goal, on some help from Republicans \u2014 which it can\u2019t rely on and certainly can\u2019t promise to the international community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105,506,619],"class_list":["post-5280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-climate-change","tag-republicans","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5281,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions\/5281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}