{"id":5599,"date":"2012-01-10T16:42:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T00:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/pnr\/dragonfly\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:21:41","slug":"tox-town-southwest","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/tox-town-southwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Tox Town Introduces New US Southwest Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2012\/01\/ToxtownsouthwestSmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5603\" title=\"ToxtownsouthwestSmall\" src=\"\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2012\/01\/ToxtownsouthwestSmall-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is fracking? What are uranium tailings and how can they affect my health?\u00a0 Answers to these questions can be found in Town&#8217;s new US Southwest Scene:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.toxtown.nlm.nih.gov\/flash\/southwest\/flash.php (English)<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.toxtown.nlm.nih.gov\/flash\/southwest\/flash_sp.php (Spanish)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This scene, developed in conjunction with <a title=\"Dine College home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dinecollege.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Din\u00e9 College in New Mexico<\/a>, highlights locations associated with environmental health concerns impacting the Navajo and others living in the Southwest region of the United States.\u00a0 New Tox Town locations found in this scene include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Abandoned Mines<\/li>\n<li>Coal-Fired Power Plants<\/li>\n<li>Dust Storms<\/li>\n<li>Hydraulic Fracturing<\/li>\n<li>Irrigation Canals and Ditches<\/li>\n<li>Oil and Gas Fields<\/li>\n<li>Sheep Ranching<\/li>\n<li>Uranium Tailings<\/li>\n<li>Water Wells<\/li>\n<li>Windmills<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Regardless of where you live, you will definitely want to visit this new neighborhood and learn about possible environmental health risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is fracking? What are uranium tailings and how can they affect my health?\u00a0 Answers to these questions can be found in Town&#8217;s new US Southwest Scene: http:\/\/www.toxtown.nlm.nih.gov\/flash\/southwest\/flash.php (English) http:\/\/www.toxtown.nlm.nih.gov\/flash\/southwest\/flash_sp.php (Spanish)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5599","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17676,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions\/17676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}