{"id":380315,"date":"2020-10-24T10:04:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T04:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=380315"},"modified":"2020-10-24T10:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T04:54:53","slug":"joe-biden-calls-for-transition-from-oil-gop-sees-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/joe-biden-calls-for-transition-from-oil-gop-sees-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden calls for \u2018transition\u2019 from oil, GOP sees opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Joe Biden\u2019s remark that he would \u201ctransition\u201d away from oil in the US in favor of renewable energy drew quick attention Thursday night from President Donald Trump, who saw it as a boon to his election chances in key states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would transition away from the oil industry, yes,\u201d Biden said in the presidential debate\u2019s closing minutes under peppering from Trump. \u201cThe oil industry pollutes, significantly. It has to be replaced by renewable energy over time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden campaign\u2019s climate plan calls for the US to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. And he repeated his pledge to end federal subsidies for the oil and gas industry. However, Biden\u2019s plan does not call for a ban on climate-damaging fossil fuels, focusing instead on technologies that can capture pollution from oil and other sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Joe Biden\u2019s remark that he would \u201ctransition\u201d away from oil in the US in favor of renewable energy drew quick attention Thursday night from President Donald Trump, who saw it as a boon to his election chances in key states. \u201cI would transition away from the oil industry, yes,\u201d Biden said in the presidential debate\u2019s closing minutes under peppering from Trump. \u201cThe oil industry pollutes, significantly. It has to be replaced by renewable energy over time.\u201d The Biden campaign\u2019s climate plan calls for the US to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. And he repeated his pledge to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}