{"id":2034,"date":"2009-03-25T06:19:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T06:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2009-03-25T06:20:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T06:20:14","slug":"thats_funny_sen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2034","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Funny, Sen. Feinstein Doesn&#8217;t Look Like Sen Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but she certainly sounds like him today.<\/p>\n<p>Where Kennedy wanted to block a wind energy project that had a (trivial) view impact on his Cape Cod mansion, I&#8217;m not aware of any personal interest Sen Feinstein has in moving to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-na-desert25-2009mar25,0,3943585.story?track=rss\" target=\"browser\">block solar and wind energy from being developed<\/a> in the California desert&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Reporting from Washington &#8212; While President Obama has made development of cleaner energy sources a priority, an effort is underway to close off a large swath of the Southern California desert to solar and wind energy projects.<\/p>\n<p>In a move that could pit usual allies &#8212; environmentalists and the solar and wind industries &#8212; against each other, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is preparing legislation that would permanently put hundreds of thousands of acres of desert land off limits to energy projects. The territory would be designated California&#8217;s newest national monument.<\/p>\n<p>The move has triggered cries of NIMBY-ism on Capitol Hill.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look, I certainly don&#8217;t believe in build anywhere you want to, but at some point this is just BANANAs (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone).<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feinstein says &#8220;No&#8221; to solar and wind power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}