{"id":2719,"date":"2004-03-04T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2004-03-04T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-04T22:25:00","slug":"political-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/03\/04\/18\/25\/political-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/docprint.mhtml?i=20040308&#038;s=kennedy\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a favor to utility and coal industries, America&#8217;s largest mercury dischargers, the EPA sat for nine months on a report exposing the catastrophic impact on children&#8217;s health of mercury, finally releasing it in February 2003. Among the findings of the report: The <b>bloodstream of one in twelve US women is saturated with enough mercury to cause neurological damage, permanent IQ loss<\/b> and a grim inventory of other diseases in their unborn children &#8230; &#8220;I&#8217;ve been regulating mining since 1966,&#8221; Spadaro told me. &#8220;<b>This is the most lawless administration I&#8217;ve encountered<\/b>. They have no regard for protecting miners or the people in mining communities. They are <b>without scruples<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a favor to utility and coal industries, America&#8217;s largest mercury dischargers, the EPA sat for nine months on a report exposing the catastrophic impact on children&#8217;s health of mercury, finally releasing it in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}