{"id":498,"date":"2007-08-04T19:37:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T02:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/04\/house-passes-energy-bill\/"},"modified":"2007-08-04T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T02:37:03","slug":"house-passes-energy-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/04\/house-passes-energy-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"House passes Energy bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/\">Montara Energy Ventures<\/a>:<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGood for the Congress, they managed to do something and something important. While we can poke many holes in the legislation, it does include 15% national renewable portfolio standard and shifts some $16B toward renewable energy and conservation programs. This was an important step and Congress should  be commended for getting it done, a little late, but better than never.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA mainstream press account of <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070805\/bs_nm\/usa_energy_house_dc_2;_ylt=AndHyIQDOA7CQbuzzReLNb0E1vAI\">the event is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Montara Energy Ventures: Good for the Congress, they managed to do something and something important. While we can poke many holes in the legislation, it does include 15% national renewable portfolio standard and shifts some $16B toward renewable energy and conservation programs. This was an important step and Congress should be commended for getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}