{"id":4516,"date":"2012-05-22T18:12:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T02:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2012-05-22T18:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T02:12:41","slug":"from-washingtonexaminer-epa-nascar-green-deal-covers-everything-but-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/22\/from-washingtonexaminer-epa-nascar-green-deal-covers-everything-but-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"(from WashingtonExaminer) &#8216;EPA-NASCAR green deal covers everything&#8211;but racing!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 President Obama\u2019s eco-friendly EPA inked a green <a href=\"https:\/\/nascar-assets.americaneagle.com\/assets\/1\/Photos\/nascar-epa-mou.pdf\">partnership deal<\/a> with high-octane NASCAR Monday to promote recycling and environmentally-friendly products to the sport\u2019s millions of fans.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Environmental Protection Agency, NASCAR will encourage fans to buy \u201csustainable concessions\u201d at races, expand the use of \u201csafer chemical products,\u201d conserve water, reduce waste, promote recycling, push products approved by the EPA that have a small enviro footprint and encourage suppliers to get an \u201cE3 tuneup\u201d aimed at promoting sustainable manufacturing.<br \/>\n<strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.9357456569559872\"><br \/>\n<\/strong>Missing: any talk of greening races or race cars that consume about two million gallons of gas a year and average five miles per gallon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE, CLICK THE PIC:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/washington-secrets\/2012\/05\/epa-nascar-green-deal-covers-everything-racing\/640431\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4517\" title=\"NASCAR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/NASCAR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/NASCAR.jpg 619w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/NASCAR-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ ALL ZBLOG POSTS, CLICK &#8216;THE ZEPHYR&#8217; AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 President Obama\u2019s eco-friendly EPA inked a green partnership deal with high-octane NASCAR Monday to promote recycling and environmentally-friendly products to the sport\u2019s millions of fans. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, NASCAR will encourage fans to buy \u201csustainable concessions\u201d at races, expand the use of \u201csafer chemical products,\u201d conserve water, reduce waste, promote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4519,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}