{"id":1068455,"date":"2023-05-30T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=284303"},"modified":"2023-05-30T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T06:00:19","slug":"polluting-the-grand-canyon-for-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/05\/30\/polluting-the-grand-canyon-for-clean-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Polluting the Grand Canyon for \u201cClean Energy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The uranium boom that began the early 1950s on the Colorado Plateau left a haunting legacy of government and industry deceit, radiation pollution, and sickened mine workers exploited with low salaries in unventilated mines, who were denied knowledge of the health dangers, particularly kidney damage and cancer, from their work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/05\/30\/polluting-the-grand-canyon-for-clean-energy\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/05\/30\/polluting-the-grand-canyon-for-clean-energy\/\">Polluting the Grand Canyon for \u201cClean Energy\u201d<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><br>\r\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/05\/30\/polluting-the-grand-canyon-for-clean-energy\/\" >CounterPunch.org<\/a> and was authored by Bill Hatch.  <br><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2023\/05\/30\/polluting-the-grand-canyon-for-clean-energy\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The uranium boom that began the early 1950s on the Colorado Plateau left a haunting legacy of government and industry deceit, radiation pollution, and sickened mine workers exploited with low salaries in unventilated mines, who were denied knowledge of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,61070,47291,228,267,42614,45609,266,61071,27150,42603],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068456,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068455\/revisions\/1068456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}