{"id":122367,"date":"2021-05-07T21:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T04:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/alabama-coal-mine-seems-to-be-leaking-pollution-while-workers-strike"},"modified":"2021-05-08T17:35:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T00:35:51","slug":"alabama-coal-mine-seems-to-be-leaking-pollution-while-workers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/alabama-coal-mine-seems-to-be-leaking-pollution-while-workers-strike","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Coal Mine Seems to Be Leaking Pollution While Workers Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alabama-coal-mine-seems-to-be-leaking-pollution-while-workers-strike2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think both with the how the workers have been treated and how the community has really been kicked aside here with the creeks, one of the problems we\u2019re seeing is Wall Street values being applied to rural, working class communities,\u201d said Smith. \u201cThat\u2019s the values of \u2018money first,\u2019 and \u2018consequences don\u2019t matter.\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It\u2019s sunny and in the mid-70s in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama right now. Normally, that would be prime conditions for a swim in Davis Creek or Texas Creek. But right now, both are running black, full of thick wastewater runoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think both with the how the workers have been treated and how the community has really been kicked aside here with the creeks, one of the problems we\u2019re seeing is Wall Street values being applied to rural, working class communities,\u201d said Smith. \u201cThat\u2019s the values of \u2018money first,\u2019 and \u2018consequences don\u2019t matter.\u2019\u201d. It\u2019s sunny [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122392,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122367\/revisions\/122392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}