{"id":970958,"date":"2023-01-27T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=20d6a77c961377bdc819aa73d44272d4"},"modified":"2023-01-27T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T02:30:00","slug":"united-states-spectacular-failure-of-climate-leadership-as-biden-outpaces-trump-on-oil-and-gas-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/27\/united-states-spectacular-failure-of-climate-leadership-as-biden-outpaces-trump-on-oil-and-gas-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"United States: &#8216;Spectacular failure of climate leadership&#8217;, as Biden outpaces Trump on oil and gas permits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p>Just days after US President Joe Biden called global warming 'an existential threat to human existence' and declared Washington's ostensible commitment to decarbonisation at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the US proceeded with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2021\/11\/17\/slap-face-biden-oil-and-gas-lease-sale-ignites-outrage-legal-challenges\" >Lease Sale <\/a>257, the nation's largest-ever auction of oil and gas permits, reports <strong>Kenny Stancil<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenleft.org.au\/content\/united-states-spectacular-failure-climate-leadership-biden-outpaces-trump-oil-and-gas\">Green Left<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after US President Joe Biden called global warming &#8216;an existential threat to human existence&#8217; and declared Washington&#8217;s ostensible commitment to decarbonisation at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the US proceeded with Lease Sale 257, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5605,6149,267,393,20733,2166,26564,3290,36,340],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970958"}],"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\/1873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971609,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970958\/revisions\/971609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}