{"id":1659,"date":"2008-03-05T18:16:32","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T18:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/05\/are-you-involved-in-mountainto\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T18:16:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T18:16:32","slug":"are-you-involved-in-mountainto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/are-you-involved-in-mountainto\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you involved in Mountaintop Removal Mining?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This, obviously, is the removal of an entire mountain to get at the coal, to ship to a power plant near you so that you can get electrictiy.  There is a movement to reduce the amount of mountaintop removal mining, and you can get the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootstrap-analysis.com\/2008\/02\/did-you-just-co.html\">here at Bootstrap Analysis.<\/a>You will also find a number of links to other discussions on the topic, as well as a handy widget to help you decide just how badly you should feel about this.I was a little surprised to find out how much coal from Virginia powered us here in Minnesota.  I see the coal trains coming down from Canada in large numbers, so I had figured we were using close to 100% Canadian coal.  Silly me.Anyway, go check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, obviously, is the removal of an entire mountain to get at the coal, to ship to a power plant near you so that you can get electrictiy. There is a movement to reduce the amount of mountaintop removal mining, and you can get the details here at Bootstrap Analysis.You will also find a number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/are-you-involved-in-mountainto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are you involved in Mountaintop Removal Mining?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-qL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}