The last major mining disaster in the country was in 2006, when 13 were trapped and 12 were killed at the Sago Mine<\/a>, also in West Virginia. The miners were trapped for two days. One survived.<\/p>\n That event prompted new regulations, including the establishment of a new emergency response team<\/a> in West Virginia.<\/p>\n It also resulted in various settlements paid out by International Coal Group and others<\/a>. No financial terms have been disclosed.<\/p>\n This particular mine has been targeted by environmentalists angry over the practice of so-called mountaintop removal mining. This is what it looks like, via the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition<\/a>:<\/p>\n Here’s what’s on the front page of Massey Energy’s<\/a> homepage right now:<\/p>\n Here’s where Raleigh County, West Virginia is in the state:<\/p>\n More to come…<\/em><\/p>\n Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n Six are reported dead and dozens are trapped in a Raleigh County West Virginia coal mine. Shares of Massey Energy (MEE) — the owner of the Performance Coal Co. mine — are down over 4% after hours. The last major mining disaster in the country was in 2006, when 13 were trapped and 12 were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516939","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\/810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Upper](\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bba6d3c7f8b9a9e6a4d0600-402-301\/upper-big-branch-mine-coal.jpg\")
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