{"id":1163714,"date":"2023-07-31T15:01:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=6e7d0d85d9eb47747e10be0add40167a"},"modified":"2023-07-31T15:01:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:01:36","slug":"obamas-solicitor-general-has-pivoted-to-defending-climate-killing-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/31\/obamas-solicitor-general-has-pivoted-to-defending-climate-killing-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Solicitor General Has Pivoted to Defending Climate-Killing Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the highest-ranking U.S. government attorneys under the Obama administration leveraged his public service experience to successfully defend a natural gas pipeline, which is set to hasten global warming while threatening vulnerable communities and ecosystems along its route. Donald B. Verrilli Jr., solicitor general from 2011-2016, is the lead counsel for the holding company behind the...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/obamas-solicitor-general-has-pivoted-to-defending-climate-killing-pipeline\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/obamas-solicitor-general-has-pivoted-to-defending-climate-killing-pipeline\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald B. Verrilli Jr. is leveraging his personal connections to the Supreme Court to help the fossil fuel industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1328,5605,66773,393,15196,4,66774,26876,1369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163715,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163714\/revisions\/1163715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}