{"id":124,"date":"2010-02-22T22:43:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2011-02-20T15:24:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T20:24:47","slug":"epa-rates-polymet-deis-environmentally-unsatisfatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/epa-rates-polymet-deis-environmentally-unsatisfatory\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA rates Polymet DEIS Environmentally Unsatisfatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Based on our review&#8230;EPA has rated the (Polymet) DEIS as Environmentally Unsatisfactory &#8211; Inadequate, or EU-3&#8221;  Received Feb 22, 2010  This is the lowest rating possible from the EPA.  Mining companies are bemoaning the slow environmental review process but take no responsibility for presenting an adequate explanation for how they are going to process the hazardous chemical in an environmentally safe way.  At the same time these same mining companies assure all that they are &#8220;going to do it right this time.&#8221;  Who in their right mind could believe their statements when they don&#8217;t match their actions.  Seems to be an industry wide problem.  See Bob Tammen explain to MN politicians that the slow environmental review is entirely due to Polymet not to environmentalists.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KristinL55803#p\/a\/u\/0\/uChWMBoIVTM\"><strong>Video: Bob Tammen&#8217;s comments to State Senators in Hibbing recently.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Based on our review&#8230;EPA has rated the (Polymet) DEIS as Environmentally Unsatisfactory &#8211; Inadequate, or EU-3&#8221; Received Feb 22, 2010 This is the lowest rating possible from the EPA. Mining companies are bemoaning the slow environmental review process but take no responsibility for presenting an adequate explanation for how they are going to process the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,49,37,3],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}