{"id":22081,"date":"2014-02-14T13:30:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=321408"},"modified":"2014-02-14T13:30:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T13:30:01","slug":"rachel-maddow-exposes-dirty-deal-in-duke-energy-toxic-coal-ash-spill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/rachel-maddow-exposes-dirty-deal-in-duke-energy-toxic-coal-ash-spill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Maddow Exposes Dirty Deal in Duke Energy Toxic Coal Ash Spill"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/maddowduke-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"maddowduke\"><\/p>\n<p>Hear the latest on the 73 Olympic-size swimming pools worth of toxic sludge that <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/02\/13\/contaminated-water-dan-river\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duke Energy dumped into North Carolina waterways<\/a>&nbsp;starting Super Bowl Sunday in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/watch\/subpoena-looks-for-dirty-deal-in-toxic-spill-151526467506\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Maddow interview<\/a> with&nbsp;Michael Gerrard, professor of environmental law at Columbia University. Gerrard talks about a North Carolina federal investigation into this coal ash leak disaster.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this third largest coal ash spill in U.S. history, read Waterkeeper Alliance&#8217;s four-part series: part <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/02\/04\/duke-energy-coal-ash-spill\/\" target=\"_blank\">one<\/a>,&nbsp;part <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/02\/05\/exclusive-duke-energy-coal-ash-spill-dan-river\/\" target=\"_blank\">two<\/a>, part <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/02\/06\/water-samples-disturbing-levels-heavy-metals-duke-coal-ash-spill\/\" target=\"_blank\">three<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;part <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/02\/13\/contaminated-water-dan-river\/\" target=\"_blank\">four<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit EcoWatch&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/news\/energy-news\/coal-mining-pollution\/\" target=\"_blank\">COAL<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/water-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">WATER<\/a>&nbsp;pages for more related news on this topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/newsletter-signup\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"topnewsbanner121\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/topnewsbanner121.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57,79],"tags":[1283,4752,2903,12199,2906,1562],"class_list":["post-22081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","category-north-carolina-leed-projects","tag-coal","tag-coal-ash","tag-energy","tag-featured-news","tag-news","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}