{"id":4176,"date":"2022-02-09T15:51:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T15:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/?p=4176"},"modified":"2022-05-05T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:01:35","slug":"trump-failed-fossil-fuel-reliant-communities-build-back-better-invests-in-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/trump-failed-fossil-fuel-reliant-communities-build-back-better-invests-in-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump failed fossil fuel-reliant communities \u2014 Build Back Better invests in them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill, Feb. 6, 2022.\u00a0 By Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, the author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/academic\/subjects\/earth-and-environmental-science\/environmental-policy-economics-and-law\/americas-energy-gamble-people-economy-and-planet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America\u2019s Energy Gamble: People, Economy and Planet<\/a>\u201d, is an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>As Democrats rework their strategy to introduce a Build Back Better bill that can pass the Senate, they would be wise to retain the House provisions that invest in rebuilding fossil fuel-reliant communities.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/academic\/subjects\/earth-and-environmental-science\/environmental-policy-economics-and-law\/americas-energy-gamble-people-economy-and-planet?format=PB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my research<\/a> has shown, these communities have been failed by previous administrations and Congresses. The Trump administration, for instance, doubled down on strategies that prolong the nation\u2019s reliance on extractive industries, under the pretext of helping these communities, but to the benefit of company executives.<\/p>\n<p>Full article <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/energy-environment\/593048-trump-failed-fossil-fuel-reliant-communities-build-back-better\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration falsely promised a coal revival. In reality, with successive coal companies\u2019 bankruptcies, workers sacrificed their health and retirement benefits, while coal executives secured bonuses and coal companies shed their responsibilities to remediate lands scarred from mountaintop removal and abandoned mines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":4177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fossil-fuels","category-solutions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}