{"id":973242,"date":"2023-01-28T17:51:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T17:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=fd3342e3d69cc110286e20fb826e8000"},"modified":"2023-01-28T17:51:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T17:51:18","slug":"lone-democrat-jared-golden-joins-house-gop-in-passing-massive-big-oil-handout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/28\/lone-democrat-jared-golden-joins-house-gop-in-passing-massive-big-oil-handout\/","title":{"rendered":"Lone Democrat Jared Golden Joins House GOP in Passing Massive Big Oil Handout"},"content":{"rendered":"
House Republicans and a single Democrat — Rep. Jared Golden of Maine — passed legislation Friday that would require the federal government to lease a certain percentage of public lands and waters for fossil fuel extraction for every non-emergency drawdown of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a trade-off that climate advocates slammed as a huge gift to Big Oil. “Fossil fuel companies are...<\/p>\n