{"id":38722,"date":"2014-09-29T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T13:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=38722"},"modified":"2014-09-29T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:14:10","slug":"state-lawmakers-consider-the-impacts-of-epa-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2014\/09\/29\/state-lawmakers-consider-the-impacts-of-epa-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"State Lawmakers Consider the Impacts of EPA Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19172\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"A recent drop in carbon emissions in the U.S. could only be temporary, a new report warns. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/10\/102944320.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19172\" alt=\"A recent drop in carbon emissions in the U.S. could only be temporary, a new report warns. \" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/10\/102944320-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/10\/102944320-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/10\/102944320.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Photo by SAUL LOEB\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent drop in carbon emissions in the U.S. could only be temporary, a new report warns.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Texas will need to make big cuts in carbon emissions over the next 15 years under a mandate from the Environmental Protection Agency.\u00a0\u00a0You can expect to hear complaints about the EPA rule at a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.tx.us\/tlodocs\/83R\/schedules\/html\/C2602014093009001.htm\"> two-day meeting <\/a>of the House Environmental Regulations Committee\u00a0starting\u00a0Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The federal agency\u00a0and state leaders have been at odds for years and\u00a0many conservatives worry that limiting carbon emission to fight climate change will hurt the economy.<\/p>\n<p>But there are some in Texas who see an upside. Click the player to learn more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/169851226%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-L0dxU&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas will need to make big cuts in carbon emissions over the next 15 years under a mandate from the Environmental Protection Agency.\u00a0\u00a0You can expect to hear complaints about the EPA rule at a two-day meeting of the House Environmental Regulations Committee\u00a0starting\u00a0Monday. The federal agency\u00a0and state leaders have been at odds for years and\u00a0many conservatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[39],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38722"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38732,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38722\/revisions\/38732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}