Massey Mine Boss Charged In Deadly Coal Mine Explosion : NPR<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFederal prosecutors in Charleston, W.Va., have filed the most serious criminal charges yet in the investigation of the April, 2010, coal mine explosion that left 29 mine workers dead.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The highest-ranking person yet has been indicted for the Massey Mine disaster in 2010: 'A "criminal information" accuses Gary May, the former superintendent of Massey's Upper Big Branch coal mine, of conspiring "with others known and unknown" to "hamper, hinder, impede, and obstruct the lawful enforcement … of mine health and safety laws" at the … Continue reading “Digging deep for higher-ups”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,21,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-job-jollies","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48111,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/don-blankenship-indicted-for-coal-mine-safety-violations.html","url_meta":{"origin":26627,"position":0},"title":"Don Blankenship indicted for coal mine safety violations","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 14-Nov-14 5:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I try to officially align with the principle of innocence until guilt is proven -- but if the litany of intentional safety violations and cover-up of same is proven, I'll be quite pleased to see Mr Blankenship (metaphorically) nailed to the wall. 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