{"id":789,"date":"2010-12-05T12:10:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T19:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?page_id=789"},"modified":"2011-02-24T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T02:26:08","slug":"introduction-protecting-your-health-and-environment-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?page_id=789","title":{"rendered":"Introduction-Protecting your health and environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We welcome new members!<\/p>\n<p>You may become a  member of Valley Watch by downloading a Valley Watch brochure at the  link below, filling it out and sending it to us. Memberships are tax  exempt under the rules of the Internal Revenue Service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>The largest concentration of coal power plants in the world<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1799\" style=\"width: 547px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Power-Plants-w-o-data-TriState-Proposed-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1799\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1799\" title=\"Power Plants w-o data TriState Proposed small\" src=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Power-Plants-w-o-data-TriState-Proposed-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Power-Plants-w-o-data-TriState-Proposed-small.jpg 537w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Power-Plants-w-o-data-TriState-Proposed-small-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The largest concentration of coal fired power plants in the US. Coal plants are the largest polluters in the world.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Coal-fired power plants pollute the environment and cause ill health for Indiana and Kentucky kids and our elderly.<\/p>\n<p>Toxic  emissions of Mercury, Lead, Arsenic, Chromium, Dioxin are common from  these power plants as are Sulfur Dioxide (Acid Rain), Nitrogen Oxides  (Ozone\/Smog) and deadly Fine Particles which are known to cause the  deaths of 24,000 people in the U.S. each year.<\/p>\n<p>Two southwest  Indiana industries, Cinergy\u2019s Gibson Station (6,959,367 lbs.) and Alcoa  Warrick Operations (5,554,409 lbs.) individually emit more toxic air  pollution than all of the industry in Los Angeles County, CA (5,474,650  lbs.), according to EPA\u2019s 2001 Toxic Release Inventory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We welcome new members! You may become a member of Valley Watch by downloading a Valley Watch brochure at the link below, filling it out and sending it to us. Memberships are tax exempt under the rules of the Internal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?page_id=789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-789","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/789\/revisions\/794"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}