{"id":903986,"date":"2022-12-01T18:33:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=c5243ff1f349e822698122b4b55c6d59"},"modified":"2022-12-01T18:33:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:33:50","slug":"fracking-firm-agrees-to-pay-a-small-towns-water-bills-for-75-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/01\/fracking-firm-agrees-to-pay-a-small-towns-water-bills-for-75-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Fracking Firm Agrees to Pay a Small Town\u2019s Water Bills for 75 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fossil fuel company was convicted of criminal charges in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, more than a decade after an early fracking operation poisoned drinking water for residents of the small town of Dimock and sparked one of the first major controversies to arise from the oil and gas boom. After years of legal wrangling, the company formerly known as Cabot Oil &amp; Gas agreed to plead no contest to 15...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/fracking-firm-agrees-to-pay-a-small-towns-water-bills-for-75-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/fracking-firm-agrees-to-pay-a-small-towns-water-bills-for-75-years\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fracking company has been convicted 14 years after polluting water wells in Dimock, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1786,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54909,5907,820,4,846,1825,28217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903986"}],"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\/1786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903987,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903986\/revisions\/903987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}