{"id":535491,"date":"2010-04-20T13:54:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82799"},"modified":"2010-04-20T13:54:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:54:04","slug":"lillis-heads-to-west-virginia-for-on-the-ground-mining-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535491","title":{"rendered":"Lillis Heads to West Virginia for On-the-Ground Mining Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since an explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 workers on April 5, Mike Lillis has been covering every angle of the story: the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/81604\/dozens-more-massey-mines-cited-as-unsafe\">dozens of other mines owned by Massey Energy<\/a> that pose safety risks, the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/82129\/failed-mining-reform-bill-might-have-prevented-tragedy\">failed 2008 bill<\/a> that could have prevented the disaster, the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/82377\/obama-assigns-responsibility-for-mining-blast-outlines-strategy-for-reform\">president&#8217;s strategy<\/a> for mining regulatory reform &#8212; the list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s only so much one can cover from Washington. So Mike&#8217;s on his way down to West Virginia, where he&#8217;ll be speaking with miners and mine regulators, environmental activists, government officials and the locals who have felt the effects of mining on their communities. He&#8217;ll be there for the next three days, filing frequent reports; be sure to follow his coverage <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/author\/mlillis\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since an explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 workers on April 5, Mike Lillis has been covering every angle of the story: the dozens of other mines owned by Massey Energy that pose safety risks, the failed 2008 bill that could have prevented the disaster, the president&#8217;s strategy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535491","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=535491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}