{"id":524880,"date":"2010-04-12T16:11:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82001"},"modified":"2010-04-12T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:11:38","slug":"white-house-briefing-on-mining-explosion-set-for-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/524880","title":{"rendered":"White House Briefing on Mining Explosion Set for Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) <a href=\"http:\/\/rockefeller.senate.gov\/press\/2010_0408%20President%20Obama.pdf\" >asked<\/a> the White House to lend West Virginia&#8217;s lawmakers periodic briefings on the investigation into last week&#8217;s deadly explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine south of Charleston. The first of those briefings, Rockefeller just announced, will be this Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u00a0must leave no stone unturned in our quest for answers,&#8221; he said in a statement.<span id=\"more-82001\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>No word yet on how free the West Virginia delegation plans to be with the information they&#8217;re given. And a private briefing for a handful of lawmakers is a far cry from the public investigation that good government groups <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sunlightfoundation.com\/2010\/04\/12\/why-not-mining-investigation-transparency\/\" >are already calling for<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) asked the White House to lend West Virginia&#8217;s lawmakers periodic briefings on the investigation into last week&#8217;s deadly explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine south of Charleston. The first of those briefings, Rockefeller just announced, will be this Thursday. &#8220;We\u00a0must leave no stone unturned in our quest for [&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-524880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524880","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=524880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}