{"id":87953,"date":"2018-01-10T01:18:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T06:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=87953"},"modified":"2018-01-09T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T16:12:07","slug":"schneiderman-statement-on-fercs-rejection-of-trump-coal-bailout-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=87953","title":{"rendered":"Schneiderman statement on FERC&#8217;s rejection of Trump coal bailout plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-70131\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman.jpg?resize=260%2C221\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman.jpg?w=260&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman.jpg?resize=150%2C128&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released the following statement upon the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission&#8217;s rejection of the Trump Department of Energy&#8217;s proposal to subsidize coal-burning power plants:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI applaud FERC for its full-throated rejection of the Trump administration\u2019s bailout plan for coal-burning power plants.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><em>As we detailed in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTgwMTA4LjgzMzU4ODAxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE4MDEwOC44MzM1ODgwMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2OTc2NjQ5JmVtYWlsaWQ9bWFyZ29AbTNwbWVkaWEuY29tJnVzZXJpZD1tYXJnb0BtM3BtZWRpYS5jb20mdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/comment_letter_ferc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com:80\/track?type%3Dclick%26enid%3DZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTgwMTA4LjgzMzU4ODAxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE4MDEwOC44MzM1ODgwMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2OTc2NjQ5JmVtYWlsaWQ9bWFyZ29AbTNwbWVkaWEuY29tJnVzZXJpZD1tYXJnb0BtM3BtZWRpYS5jb20mdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY%3D%26%26%26100%26%26%26https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/comment_letter_ferc.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1515552333542000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHvdd-eAtmGfWxmoP7UdMpTlYS2RQ\">our comments opposing the plan<\/a>,\u00a0this unlawful, thinly-veiled corporate giveaway threatened to undermine New York\u2019s progress in protecting the environment and securing a cleaner, more sustainable, and affordable energy future for our state. As long as the Trump administration continues to put polluters before the health and wellbeing of New Yorkers, I\u2019ll continue to fight back.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released the following statement upon the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission&#8217;s rejection of the Trump Department of Energy&#8217;s proposal to subsidize coal-burning power plants: \u201cI applaud FERC for its full-throated rejection of the Trump administration\u2019s bailout plan for coal-burning power plants.\u00a0\u00a0As we detailed in\u00a0our comments opposing the plan,\u00a0this unlawful, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-mSB","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman.jpg?fit=260%2C221&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}