{"id":1009,"date":"2013-10-20T09:55:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T09:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2013-10-20T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T15:04:44","slug":"news-from-the-green-shadow-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/20\/news-from-the-green-shadow-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"news from the Green Shadow Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u201cMonsanto Protection Act\u201d goes to Oregon
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Kris Alman, Assistant Secretary of Health for Data Privacy
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While the \u201cMonsanto Protection Act\u201d has been dealt a setback in the Washington, the GMO industry is continuing its backroom campaign against regulation and labelling at a state and local level. The story of Oregon\u2019s SB-863 law shows that the industry is targeting the rights of counties and communities to control their food production.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t Frack the Future<\/a><\/h1>\n

Steve Breyman, Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator<\/a><\/p>\n

High-volume hydraulic fracturing (better known as \u201cfracking\u201d), the process by which more and more oil and gas in the United States is produced, is good at some near-term things. It\u2019s brought down natural gas prices for consumers. It\u2019s resulted in several boom-towns across America\u2019s shale formations. It\u2019s brought back to life old wells uneconomical to pump through other means. It\u2019s generated significant funds for gas companies and some lucky leaseholders. It\u2019s created thousands of jobs. It\u2019s plowed much needed tax revenues into a few state and local government coffers.<\/p>\n

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But that\u2019s the problem\u2014fracking is all about\u00a0now<\/em>.
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The \u201cMonsanto Protection Act\u201d goes to Oregon Kris Alman, Assistant Secretary of Health for Data Privacy While the \u201cMonsanto Protection Act\u201d has been dealt a setback in the Washington, the GMO industry is continuing its backroom campaign against regulation and labelling at a state and local level. The story of Oregon\u2019s SB-863 law shows that … Continue reading news from the Green Shadow Cabinet<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}