{"id":15529,"date":"2015-08-26T05:39:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T11:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=15529"},"modified":"2015-08-26T05:39:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T11:39:51","slug":"epa-spill-conspiracy-theories-gain-traction-in-utah-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/epa-spill-conspiracy-theories-gain-traction-in-utah-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Spill Conspiracy Theories Gain Traction in Utah Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"610\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"repubhubembed\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"rhexcerpt\">Within days of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s accidental release of 3 million gallons of mining wastewater into the Animas River in Colorado, portions of the Internet frothed over with conspiracy theories that the EPA spill may not have been an accident. Now, that line of thinking has found its way to the Utah legislature. And&hellip;<!--more--><\/p>\n<style>.rhexcerpt{display:none;}<\/style>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rhembed\" src=\"\/\/d2uzdrx7k4koxz.cloudfront.net\/user\/view.act?fuid=MjAyNDkzMjI=&#038;showDate=true\" height=\"1500\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border:0;overflow-x:hidden;background:transparent;\" allowtransparency=\"yes\" scrolling=\"no\" data-size=\"5401\"><\/iframe><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/d2uzdrx7k4koxz.cloudfront.net\/user\/js\/rh.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- TO HIDE THE DATE, change \"showDate=true\" to \"false\" --><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within days of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s accidental release of 3 million gallons of mining wastewater into the Animas River in Colorado, portions of the Internet frothed over with conspiracy theories that the EPA spill may not have been an accident. Now, that line of thinking has found its way to the Utah legislature. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/epa-spill-conspiracy-theories-gain-traction-in-utah-legislature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EPA Spill Conspiracy Theories Gain Traction in Utah Legislature<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15530,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15529\/revisions\/15530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}