{"id":49021,"date":"2016-02-08T09:45:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T16:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=49021"},"modified":"2016-02-07T23:23:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T06:23:25","slug":"environmental-injustice-how-coal-ash-is-poisoning-poor-communities-of-color-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2016\/02\/08\/environmental-injustice-how-coal-ash-is-poisoning-poor-communities-of-color-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Injustice &#8211; How Coal Ash Is Poisoning Poor Communities of Color in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601502.us.archive.org\/31\/items\/uprising_2016_02_08\/Esther_Calhoun_2016_02_08.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601502.us.archive.org\/31\/items\/uprising_2016_02_08\/uprising_2016_02_08.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Esther Calhoun<\/strong> is a resident of Uniontown, Alabama, and president of Black Belt Citizens for Health &#038; Justice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The US Commission on Civil Rights held a hearing on Friday to look into the impacts of coal ash disposal in low income communities, and communities of color in the US. Coal ash is a waste by-product of coal-fired power plants and, according to a report by Earthjustice, and Physicians for Social Responsibility, it is the second largest source of industrial waste in the nation. It contains known toxins and carcinogens such as lead, mercury, chromium and cadmium. One of the testimonies heard by the US civil rights commission was from my guest, Esther Calhoun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTES:<\/strong> The Arrowhead Landfill in Uniontown not only takes in the garbage from dozens of states, but also took in heaps of coal ash from the infamous ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee, in 2008.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Esther Calhoun is a resident of Uniontown, Alabama, and president of Black Belt Citizens for Health &#038; Justice. The US Commission on Civil Rights held a hearing on Friday to look into the impacts of coal ash disposal in low income communities, and communities of color in the US. Coal ash is a waste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49023,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49021\/revisions\/49023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}