{"id":20051,"date":"2019-11-08T09:07:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T17:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20051"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:07:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T17:07:50","slug":"bill-gates-visits-capitol-to-talk-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20051","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates visits Capitol to talk climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft founder\u00a0Bill Gates\u00a0was spotted in the Capitol Thursday, planning to meet with leaders of the newly formed Senate Climate Solutions Caucus.<\/p>\n<p>Sen.\u00a0Christopher Coons\u00a0(D-Del.), one of the founders of the caucus, called Gates \u201cone of the most significant innovators, entrepreneurs and business leaders of the last 50 years and who is a major player in climate change and global development and poverty issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The caucus,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/yvccypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtbkfsbb_mnbcnnyqylcnbycdpwwp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/yvccypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtbkfsbb_mnbcnnyqylcnbycdpwwp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1573317998510000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHamu35GX-uFuG-cPLAooJtktFWqg\">announced last month<\/a>, has already added\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/spplwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshsmcbsl_mnbcnnyqylcnbycdpwwp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/spplwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshsmcbsl_mnbcnnyqylcnbycdpwwp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1573317998510000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEnHFPhXg9nqE7lLmZM5_S80iPDZA\">six new members<\/a>\u00a0and had its first meeting with several CEOs on Tuesday to discuss federal climate policy.<\/p>\n<p>Coons said the meeting has no agenda, but he\u2019s interested to hear Gates\u2019s thoughts on what the country should be investing in and \u201cwhat he thinks are promising technologies that could contribute to battling climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft founder\u00a0Bill Gates\u00a0was spotted in the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20052,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20051\/revisions\/20052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}