{"id":301455,"date":"2014-05-19T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=301455"},"modified":"2014-05-20T11:05:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T16:05:46","slug":"perry-sends-obama-letter-slamming-energy-policies-pipeline-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=301455","title":{"rendered":"Perry Sends Obama Letter Slamming Energy Policies, Pipeline Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/thumb_rickperry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/thumb_rickperry.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_rickperry\" width=\"117\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-301037\" \/><\/a>HOUSTON (AP) &#8211; Texas Gov. Rick Perry has written a letter to President Barack Obama slamming his energy policies, EPA regulations and a lack of movement on whether to build a cross-border pipeline to carry crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. The letter is dated Friday. It largely reiterates much of Perry&#8217;s long-standing opposition to the Obama administration&#8217;s energy policies. But it comes as a bipartisan energy bill stalled in Congress when GOP Senators demanded a vote on the Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas pipeline and on the EPA&#8217;s move to put greenhouse gas regulations on existing coal-fired power plants. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Perry&#8217;s letter touts Texas&#8217; economy and what he called the state&#8217;s success at having both a robust energy industry and sound environmental regulations. Perry is considered a possible presidential contender in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed route of the pipeline takes it through eastern Smith County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) &#8211; Texas Gov. Rick Perry has written a letter to President Barack Obama slamming his energy policies, EPA regulations and a lack of movement on whether to build a cross-border pipeline to carry crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. The letter is dated Friday. It largely reiterates much of Perry&#8217;s long-standing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=301455\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perry Sends Obama Letter Slamming Energy Policies, Pipeline Delay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 02:34:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301563,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301455\/revisions\/301563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}