{"id":517895,"date":"2010-04-06T13:32:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81500"},"modified":"2010-04-06T13:32:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:32:03","slug":"rockefeller-on-mine-explosion-%e2%80%98i-will-demand-answers%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/517895","title":{"rendered":"Rockefeller on Mine Explosion: \u2018I Will Demand Answers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One by one, the powerful Democrats of coal country are calling for an investigation into <a href=\"http:\/\/wvgazette.com\/News\/201004050545\" >yesterday&#8217;s explosion<\/a> that killed at least 25 coal miners in Raleigh County, W.Va.<\/p>\n<p>The latest is Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who just issued <a href=\"http:\/\/rockefeller.senate.gov\/press\/record.cfm?id=323618&amp;\" >a statement<\/a> vowing that he &#8220;will demand answers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We will leave no stone unturned in determining how this happened and in taking action for the future.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-81500\"><\/span>Rockefeller&#8217;s comments follow those by West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall (D),\u00a0who <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/81460\/west-virginia-congressman-there-will-be-accountability\" >called<\/a> this morning for &#8220;a thorough investigation&#8221; into the explosion, which struck Massey Energy&#8217;s Upper Big Branch Mine in Rahall&#8217;s district.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate, but every mine safety law we have on the books today was written in the blood of coal miners,&#8221; Rahall <a href=\"http:\/\/wvgazette.com\/News\/201004050545?page=2&amp;build=cache\" >told<\/a> reporters this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One by one, the powerful Democrats of coal country are calling for an investigation into yesterday&#8217;s explosion that killed at least 25 coal miners in Raleigh County, W.Va. The latest is Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who just issued a statement vowing that he &#8220;will demand answers.&#8221; We will leave no stone unturned in determining how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517895","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\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}