Like this, sometimes: <\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Governor<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/news\/environment\/2018\/12\/20\/phil-murphy-remains-quiet-meadowlands-power-plant-despite-growing-opposition-north-bergen-liberty\/2311946002\/\"> Murphy has remained steadfastly poker-faced when it comes to a proposal to build a controversial power plant in the Meadowlands that would be one of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters in the state even as dozens of nearby towns voice opposition.<\/a> Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-100-clean-energy-gas-plants-20181220-story.html\">Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is leaning toward spending billions of dollars to rebuild three aging gas-fired power plants, even as California aims to eliminate fossil fuels, a goal endorsed by Mayor Eric Garcetti.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/energynews.us\/2018\/12\/20\/northeast\/massachusetts-popular-electric-vehicle-rebates-are-about-to-get-smaller\/\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Massachusetts is shrinking its popular electric vehicle rebates in an effort to stretch the program\u2019s dollars, but critics say bigger changes are needed to make it financially sustainable and accessible to all residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a long way to go,\u201d said Larry Chretien, executive director of the nonprofit Green Energy Consumers Alliance. \u201cOur transportation emissions are rising and we can\u2019t allow that to happen.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the Trump administration puts the brakes on safety, as it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/2e91c7211b4947de8837ebeda53080b9\">miscalculated potential damages from train derailments when it canceled an Obama-era rule requiring the installation of more advanced brakes by railroads hauling explosive fuels,<\/a> And, in Montana, [t]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-biofuels-exxon-mobil-exclusive-idUSKCN1OI292\">he U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted oil major Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) a financial hardship waiver this year temporarily freeing its Montana refinery from U.S. biofuel laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And that was just today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like this, sometimes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5034],"tags":[708,1014,722],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Rome_Burns_Nero_Fiddle_v1.jpg?fit=391%2C204&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-87U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31242"}],"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=31242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31245,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31242\/revisions\/31245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}