{"id":10242,"date":"2011-10-11T10:11:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T10:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/10\/11\/support-epas-water-infrastruct\/"},"modified":"2011-10-11T10:11:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T10:11:50","slug":"support-epas-water-infrastruct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/11\/support-epas-water-infrastruct\/","title":{"rendered":"Support EPA&#8217;s Water Infrastructure Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By signing this petition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new report from Green For All found that we could create nearly 1.9 million jobs and inject over a quarter of a trillion dollars into the economy by fully upgrading America&#8217;s aging water and stormwater infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, 860 billion gallons of raw sewage spill into our waterways &#8211; enough to cover the entire state of Pennsylvania one inch deep. Fixing that problem creates jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Green For All&#8217;s report, available here (http:\/\/bit.ly\/WaterWorksReport), shows that making the EPA&#8217;s recommended $188 billion investment &#8211; enough to manage stormwater and preserve water quality for millions of Americans &#8211; could have a huge short- and long-term impact. And the timing for the investment couldn&#8217;t be better.<\/p>\n<p>Americans need clean water. We need clean jobs. This investment gives us both.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwws.whitehouse.gov\/petitions\/!\/petition\/immediately-push-epas-full-recommended-investment-water-infrastructure-creating-nearly-19-million\/QPwlhlJr\">Sign here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By signing this petition: A new report from Green For All found that we could create nearly 1.9 million jobs and inject over a quarter of a trillion dollars into the economy by fully upgrading America&#8217;s aging water and stormwater infrastructure. Every year, 860 billion gallons of raw sewage spill into our waterways &#8211; enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/11\/support-epas-water-infrastruct\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Support EPA&#8217;s Water Infrastructure Project<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Fc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}