{"id":298715,"date":"2010-02-09T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T19:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a87e0ebe970b"},"modified":"2010-02-09T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T19:31:15","slug":"sen-dianne-feinstein-seeks-moratorium-on-expansion-of-toxic-waste-landfill-in-kettleman-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/298715","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Dianne Feinstein seeks moratorium on expansion of toxic-waste landfill in Kettleman City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday called for a moratorium on expanding a toxic-waste landfill in the impoverished Central Valley enclave of Kettleman City, where residents have reported a handful of rare birth deformities over a recent 14-month period.<\/p>\n<p>The California Democrat also directed her staff to examine the feasibility of securing federal funds to address the town&#8217;s drinking water, which contains high levels of arsenic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very concerned about the surge in birth defects occurring in Kettleman City,\u201d Feinstein said in a statement. \u201cIt is my view that there should be no expansion of the toxic dump site until we know with certainty whether it is a cause of this serious situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/greenspace\/\">www.latimes.com\/greenspace<\/a>. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday called for a moratorium on expanding a toxic-waste landfill in the impoverished Central Valley enclave of Kettleman City, where residents have reported a handful of rare birth deformities over a recent 14-month period. The California Democrat also directed her staff to examine the feasibility of securing federal funds to address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}