{"id":637392,"date":"2010-01-21T19:24:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-01-21-robert-kennedy-debate-mountaintop-mining-magnate-don-blankenship\/"},"modified":"2010-01-21T19:24:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:24:49","slug":"robert-f-kennedy-jr-debates-mountaintop-mining-magnate-don-blankenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/637392","title":{"rendered":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. debates mountaintop mining magnate Don Blankenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby David Roberts <\/p>\n<p>The University of Charleston in West Virginia is hosting a debate today between Waterkeeper Alliance founder Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Massey mountaintop mining CEO Don Blankenship. You can watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justin.tv\/waterkeeper_alliance#r=x1Inv4A\">here<\/a> starting at about 3:30pm Pacific.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I will be &#8220;live-tweeting&#8221; the debate, so for a play-by-play please <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/drgrist\">follow my Twitter feed<\/a>. When it&#8217;s over, I&#8217;ll write a short wrap-up here, so come back later today or tomorrow and refresh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-01-19-stephen-colbert-on-mountaintop-removal-mining-video\/\">Stephen Colbert on mountaintop-removal mining [VIDEO]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/copenhagen-u.s.-december-7\/\">Copenhagen, U.S.A. December 7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2009-08-18-we-are-all-from-wise-county\/\">We are all from Wise County<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=d37bc70e8e208ed42baa2a586705f833&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=d37bc70e8e208ed42baa2a586705f833&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by David Roberts The University of Charleston in West Virginia is hosting a debate today between Waterkeeper Alliance founder Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Massey mountaintop mining CEO Don Blankenship. You can watch here starting at about 3:30pm Pacific. I will be &#8220;live-tweeting&#8221; the debate, so for a play-by-play please follow my Twitter feed. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2FOw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}