{"id":298710,"date":"2026-10-02T23:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298710\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T23:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:44:07","slug":"how-coal-mining-killed-a-pennsylvania-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298710\/","title":{"rendered":"How Coal Mining Killed a Pennsylvania River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Pennsylvania, the Tioga River is all but dead. Years of pollution from coal mines created what\u2019s called acid mine drainage \u2014 when minerals like pyrite from underground are left exposed, come into contact with water and oxygen, and bleed acidity into waterways, carrying toxic metals and choking out wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in the early 2000s, local activists decided that it didn\u2019t have to be this way. They worked for years to get grants to bring the Tioga River back to life. Scientists are now working on adding an active treatment facility to accompany two smaller existing ones, all designed to clean up the Tioga once and for all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reporter: Audrey Carleton<br \/>Producer: Cerise Castle<br \/>Editor: Jayrol San Jose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Pennsylvania, the Tioga River is all but dead. Years of pollution from coal mines created what\u2019s called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-298710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}