{"id":157519,"date":"2017-03-07T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/trump-budget-to-slash-epa-funds-ax-staff-kill-climate-change-plans-reports\/"},"modified":"2017-03-07T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:15:00","slug":"trump-budget-to-slash-epa-funds-ax-staff-kill-climate-change-plans-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/trump-budget-to-slash-epa-funds-ax-staff-kill-climate-change-plans-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump budget to slash EPA funds, ax staff, kill climate-change plans: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1109207_trump-budget-to-slash-epa-funds-ax-staff-kill-climate-change-plans-reports\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.hgmsites.net\/tmb\/smog-obscures-george-washington-bridge-1973-from-epa-documerica-series_100594067_t.gif?w=90\" alt=\"Smog obscures George Washington Bridge, 1973 [From EPA Documerica series]\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Imagine putting a pacifist in charge of the U.S. Defense Department. Or appointing a committed racist to enforce civil rights in the country. The appointment of Scott Pruitt as the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could perhaps be viewed in a similar light. In his former position as Oklahoma attorney general, he sued the&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1109207_trump-budget-to-slash-epa-funds-ax-staff-kill-climate-change-plans-reports\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1109207_trump-budget-to-slash-epa-funds-ax-staff-kill-climate-change-plans-reports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" src=\"http:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/tmb\/smog-obscures-george-washington-bridge-1973-from-epa-documerica-series_100594067_t.gif\" alt=\"Smog obscures George Washington Bridge, 1973 [From EPA Documerica series]\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Imagine putting a pacifist in charge of the U.S. Defense Department. Or appointing a committed racist to enforce civil rights in the country. The appointment of Scott Pruitt as the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could perhaps be viewed in a similar light. In his former position as Oklahoma attorney general, he sued the&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1109207_trump-budget-to-slash-epa-funds-ax-staff-kill-climate-change-plans-reports\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greencarreports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}