{"id":80679,"date":"2026-10-30T06:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/five-reasons-why-the-us-midterms-matter-for-the-climate-and-your-energy-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T06:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:55:15","slug":"five-reasons-why-the-us-midterms-matter-for-the-climate-and-your-energy-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/five-reasons-why-the-us-midterms-matter-for-the-climate-and-your-energy-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Five reasons why the US midterms matter for the climate \u2013 and your energy bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters are feeling the pinch of Trump\u2019s anti-climate agenda as energy costs rise, but a shakeup in Congress could shift things<\/p>\n<p>If the polls can be believed, the US could see a blue wave in the midterms, giving Democrats a chance to take back the House and Senate, and gaining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/analysis\/governors\/2026-final-governors-ratings\">up to four<\/a> governor\u2019s seats.<\/p>\n<p>These wins could give Democrats new power to resist Donald Trump\u2019s anti-climate agenda, and to push forward climate policies at the state level. But if Republicans maintain power, it could further embolden Trump\u2019s \u201cdrill baby drill\u201d agenda and leave intact his administration\u2019s latitude to continue dismantling regulatory measures his critics say protect public health and the planet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/30\/climate-crisis-midterms-affordability\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters are feeling the pinch of Trump\u2019s anti-climate agenda as energy costs rise, but a shakeup in Congress could shift things If the polls can be believed, the US could see a blue wave in the midterms, giving Democrats a chance to take back the House and Senate, and gaining up to four governor\u2019s seats. &#8230; <a title=\"Five reasons why the US midterms matter for the climate \u2013 and your energy bill\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/five-reasons-why-the-us-midterms-matter-for-the-climate-and-your-energy-bill\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Five reasons why the US midterms matter for the climate \u2013 and your energy bill\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}