{"id":1305,"date":"2021-02-27T20:01:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2021-02-27T20:01:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T19:01:01","slug":"new-energy-secretary-jennifer-granholm-has-advice-for-texas-and-for-the-oil-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/2021\/02\/27\/new-energy-secretary-jennifer-granholm-has-advice-for-texas-and-for-the-oil-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"New Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has advice for Texas \u2014 and for the oil industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jennifer Granholm, who was confirmed as secretary of energy by the Senate on Thursday, takes over a department with a $35 billion budget for an administration that has enthusiastically promoted the further development of clean energy. Even as the Senate vote was tallied, state legislators in Texas were holding hearings on the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2021\/02\/18\/texas-electric-grid-failure\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\"> colossal power failures<\/a> there of the week before. In a Friday interview with The Washington Post, Granholm had some advice for Texas. But with General Motors vowing to build only electric vehicles by 2035, the former governor of Michigan comes to office on the cusp of national transition. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2021\/02\/27\/energy-secretary-granholm-texas-oil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Granholm, who was confirmed as secretary of energy by the Senate on Thursday, takes over a department with a $35 billion budget for an administration that has enthusiastically promoted the further development of clean energy. Even as the Senate vote was tallied, state legislators in Texas were holding hearings on the colossal power failures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}