{"id":2436421,"date":"2019-01-28T23:04:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T06:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/citizens-united-hampers-climate-change-efforts\/"},"modified":"2019-01-28T23:04:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T06:04:01","slug":"citizens-united-hampers-climate-change-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/citizens-united-hampers-climate-change-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens United hampers climate-change efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For some time now, I&#8217;ve contended that climate change may not be the only issue in the world, but it&#8217;s certainly the most important. The future of life on this planet? What&#8217;s bigger than that?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A friend of mine at the hot springs pool disagreed. She said Citizens United, the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed corporations to make political contributions, is the source of all our ills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She may be right. If it wasn&#8217;t for the fossil-fuel industry lining the pockets of the politicians, we might be able to do something about climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Fred Malo Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/citizens-united-hampers-climate-change-efforts\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some time now, I&#8217;ve contended that climate change may not be the only issue in the world, but it&#8217;s certainly the most important. The future of life on this planet? What&#8217;s bigger than that? A friend of mine at the hot springs pool disagreed. She said Citizens United, the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2436421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 21:49:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}