{"id":100982,"date":"2022-08-20T15:17:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=100982"},"modified":"2022-08-20T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T15:18:00","slug":"the-tva-is-dumping-a-mountain-of-coal-ash-in-black-south-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=100982","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The TVA is dumping a mountain of coal ash in Black south Memphis&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2022\/08\/19\/tennessee-valley-authority-memphis-coal\/\" target=\"_blank\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;It\u2019s rare for a Black community to notch a win against a large industrial polluter, but that\u2019s what happened on this city\u2019s south side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents stood up to a proposal by two oil and gas industry giants to build a pipeline under their properties and forced them to back down. When the news broke last year in July, the rejoicing began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it didn\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just two weeks after Valero Energy Corp. and Plains All-American abandoned their pipeline bid, the Tennessee Valley Authority announced its plan to truck millions of tons of contaminated coal ash through south Memphis for\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tva.com\/environment\/environmental-stewardship\/tdec-order-on-coal-combustion-residuals\/allen-fossil-plant\" target=\"_blank\">nearly 10 years<\/a>\u00a0and dump it in a landfill there. And there was nothing residents could do to stop it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What happened in south Memphis is another example of how industries constantly work to fight their way into communities of color already teeming with pollution \u2014 and get their way more often than not.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;It\u2019s rare for a Black community to notch a win against a large industrial polluter, but that\u2019s what happened on this city\u2019s south side. Residents stood up to a proposal by two oil and gas industry giants to build a pipeline under their properties and forced them to back down. When the news broke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100983,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100982\/revisions\/100983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}