{"id":517744,"date":"2010-04-06T11:14:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81475"},"modified":"2010-04-06T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:14:18","slug":"coal-company-whose-w-va-mine-exploded-touts-safety-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/517744","title":{"rendered":"Coal Company Whose W.Va. Mine Exploded Touts Safety Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massey Energy must feel pretty ashamed right now. A coal mine it owns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/07\/us\/07westvirginia.html?hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1270566033-vDjaPQ7XD2ucOvG25QSOXw\">exploded<\/a> yesterday, killing at least 25 people. One of the coal industry&#8217;s staunchest allies in Congress is <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/81460\/west-virginia-congressman-there-will-be-accountability\">calling for an investigation and promising accountability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the company&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masseyenergyco.com\/\">Website<\/a> have to say? Well, here&#8217;s the top story: &#8220;2009 Was Another Record Setting Year for Safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the likely event that the company changes its tune, here&#8217;s a screengrab of the homepage:<span id=\"more-81475\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/massey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-81476\" title=\"massey\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/massey-480x429.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/drgrist\/statuses\/11702236473\">Dave Roberts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massey Energy must feel pretty ashamed right now. A coal mine it owns exploded yesterday, killing at least 25 people. One of the coal industry&#8217;s staunchest allies in Congress is calling for an investigation and promising accountability. So what&#8217;s the company&#8217;s Website have to say? Well, here&#8217;s the top story: &#8220;2009 Was Another Record Setting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517744","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\/5443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}