{"id":3363,"date":"2023-10-06T21:52:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T01:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2023-10-06T21:52:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T01:52:33","slug":"biden-administration-waives-26-laws-to-speed-up-u-s-mexico-border-wall-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/biden-administration-waives-26-laws-to-speed-up-u-s-mexico-border-wall-construction-06102023\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration waives 26 laws to speed-up U.S.-Mexico border wall construction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Joe Biden administration has waived 26 environmental laws to speed the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Texas. T he waivers circumvent the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Endangered Species Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, among others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marks the first time the Biden administration has used its authority under the so-called REAL ID Act to waive environmental laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, the Center for Biological Diversity said: \u201cEvery acre of habitat left in the Rio Grande Valley is irreplaceable. &nbsp;We can\u2019t afford to lose more of it to a useless, medieval wall that won\u2019t do a thing to stop immigration or smuggling. &nbsp;President Biden\u2019s cynical decision to destroy a wildlife refuge and seal the beautiful Rio Grande behind a grotesque border wall must be stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joe Biden administration has waived 26 environmental laws to speed the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Texas. T he waivers circumvent the National Environmental Policy Act, the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[42],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"authors":[{"term_id":42,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"radio-habana-cuba","display_name":"Radio Habana Cuba","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}