{"id":14057,"date":"2013-05-02T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=14057"},"modified":"2014-01-24T15:10:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:10:48","slug":"is-coal-mining-making-a-comeback-in-eastern-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/05\/02\/is-coal-mining-making-a-comeback-in-eastern-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Coal Mining Making a Comeback In Eastern Oklahoma?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14068\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"A pile of coal sits along the railroad tracks just east of Red Oak, Okla.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/CoalPic1.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14068\" title=\"Coal Pic\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/CoalPic1.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/CoalPic1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/CoalPic1-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/CoalPic1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/CoalPic1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Logan Layden \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pile of coal sits along the railroad tracks just east of Red Oak, Okla.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Coal mining plays a <a title=\"OSUlink\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.okstate.edu\/encyclopedia\/entries\/c\/co001.html\" target=\"_blank\">key role<\/a> in the history of eastern Oklahoma. Without immigrant miners flooding into the area in the late 19th\u00a0and early 20th\u00a0centuries, some towns might not even exist.<\/p><p>When Oklahoma coal mining began to die off, so did many of the towns founded around it.<\/p><p>Oklahoma&#8217;s coal is too high in sulfur to be of much use in the United States, and burning it in large quantities is against federal clean air regulations.<\/p><p>Not all countries have those kinds of restrictions, however, and growing economies in Asia could drive the renewal of Oklahoma&#8217;s coal mining industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all countries have those kinds of restrictions, however, and growing economies in Asia could drive the renewal of Oklahoma&#8217;s coal mining industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":14068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[532,533,534,447],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14085,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14057\/revisions\/14085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}