{"id":2979,"date":"2004-12-03T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/12\/no-1-air-polluter\/"},"modified":"2004-12-03T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2004-12-03T19:27:12","slug":"no-1-air-polluter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/03\/no-1-air-polluter\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 air polluter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe state of Washington has some pretty nasty pollution, what with coal-fired power plants, stinky paper mills, and the King County Democratic Party. But the identity of the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2002105397_volcano01m.html\">number one polluter is probably a surprise:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But right now, the biggest single source of air pollution in Washington isn&#8217;t a power plant, pulp mill or anything else created by man.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a volcano.<\/p>\n<p>Since Mount St. Helens started erupting in early October, it has been pumping out between 50 and 250 tons a day of sulfur dioxide, the lung-stinging gas that causes acid rain and contributes to haze.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I say we slap some fines on that bitch.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Washington has some pretty nasty pollution, what with coal-fired power plants, stinky paper mills, and the King County Democratic Party. But the identity of the number one polluter is probably a surprise: But right now, the biggest single source of air pollution in Washington isn&#8217;t a power plant, pulp mill or anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/03\/no-1-air-polluter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No. 1 air polluter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-M3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}