{"id":20823,"date":"2014-01-14T13:42:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=317836"},"modified":"2014-01-14T13:42:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:42:23","slug":"how-passage-of-tpp-could-bypass-fracking-bans-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/how-passage-of-tpp-could-bypass-fracking-bans-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"How Passage of TPP Could Bypass Fracking Bans in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tppcongress-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"tppcongress\"><\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 9, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Rep. Camp (R-MI)&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/01\/10\/congress-fast-track-tpp-threatening-health-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\">introduced the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act of 2014<\/a>, otherwise known as &ldquo;fast track,&rdquo; which could facilitate passage of deeply flawed trade agreements including the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/11\/26\/protestors-trans-pacific-partnerships-secret-corporate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact<\/a>&nbsp;with limited public and Congressional input. If fast-track legislation is approved by Congress, President Obama would be able to sign the TPP and then send it to Congress for a straight up-or-down vote&mdash;with no room for amendments and limited floor debate.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this video by the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareriverkeeper.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Delaware Riverkeeper Network<\/a>&nbsp;showing how the TPP&nbsp;could threaten environmental protections and public health. This video examines the potential impacts of the TPP if approved by Congress.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit EcoWatch&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/news\/energy-news\/fracking-2\/\" target=\"_parent\">FRACKING<\/a> pages for more related news on this topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/newsletter-signup\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"topnewsbanner12\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/topnewsbanner12.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57],"tags":[2903,2644,2906],"class_list":["post-20823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","tag-energy","tag-fracking","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}