Arch Coal

Appalachia Faces Steep Coal Decline

AP | By DYLAN LOVAN | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Energy, Virginia, Appalachia, Appalachia Coal Decline, Tennessee, Coal Industry, West Virginia, Coal Production, Appalachian Mountains, Obama Administration, Kentucky, Arch Coal, Department of Energy, Coal Mining, Coal, Green News

GARRETT, Ky. -- When business screeched to a halt at Jerry Howard's eastern Kentucky mine engineering company two years ago, he decided to call it qui...

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Dave Jamieson

How One Miner Took On Big Coal

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Energy, Massey Energy, Miners, Big Coal, Regulation, Arch Coal, Sago Mine, Coal Lobby, Msha, Coal Miners, Appalachia, Video, Charles Scott Howard, Kentucky, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Mining-Safety, George Miller, Upper Big Branch Mine, Tony Oppegard, National Mining Association, Politics News

WHITESBURG, Ky. -- On a July morning four years ago, Charles Scott Howard left his home in the mountains of Southeastern Kentucky and drove his pickup...

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Paige Lavender

Major Coal Company Plans To Mine Under High School

HuffingtonPost.com | Paige Lavender | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Energy, West Virginia Coal Association, West Virginia Coal Mining, West Virginia, Wolf Run Mining Company, Arch Coal, Coal, Montcoal Wv, Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, International Coal Group, Buckhannon-Upshur High School, Icg, Montcoal-West-Virginia, Credo Action, Upshur County Board of Education, Coal Mining, Montcoal, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News

WASHINGTON -- A subsidiary of the second-largest coal company in the United States is seeking permission to mine directly underneath a high school in ...

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Dave Jamieson

Whistleblowing Miner Fired

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Coal Miners, Massey Energy, Whistleblowers, Big Coal, Charles Scott Howard, Regulation, Arch Coal, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Upper Big Branch Mine, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A Kentucky miner whose whistleblower case recently caught the attention of mine safety proponents on Capitol Hill was fired yesterday, h...

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Dave Jamieson

House Dems: Coal Industry Rep Gave 'Questionable' Testimony On Whistleblower Retaliation

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Msha, Massey Energy, Whistleblowers, Massey Coal Mine, Charles Scott Howard, Massey Energy Company, Robert Byrd, Arch Coal, Mine Safety, Anthony Bumbico, Upper Big Branch Mine, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats have accused a coal industry representative of giving "questionable" testimony during a hearing on mine safety reform ea...

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Powder River Basin: The New Energy Frontier?

Caroline Henderson | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Bellingham WA, Arch Coal, Longview-Washington, Peabody Energy, Powder River Basin, Secretary Salazar, Green News
Caroline Henderson

How will America embark upon a new energy frontier when we're promoting backwards policies that not only prolong the use of coal in the U.S, but also further enable dirty and destructive energy habits abroad?

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Kentucky's Coal Cabinet

Scott Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, IGC Hazard, IGC Knott County, West Virginia, Epa, Natural Resources and Energy Committee, Arch Coal, Consol Energy, US Deprtment of Labor, Environmental Protection Agency, Frasure Creek Mining, US Department of Justice, Perdue Farms, State Senator Brandon Smith, Clean Water Act, Kentucky Senate, Energy and Environment Cabinet, Kentucky, Commonwealth of Kentucky, Nally and Hamilton, Green News
Scott Edwards

There's a storm brewing in Kentucky among coal companies and state government.

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55 Cents: The Cost of Big Coal Hubris, Disgraced West Virginian Pols and Betrayed Coalfield Residents

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coalfields, West Virginia Coal Mining, West Virginia, Mountaintop Removal, Coal Mining, Mountaintop Removal Mining, Arch Coal, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Despite posting more than $700 million in earnings for 2010, Arch Coal reportedly refused to consider paying an extra 55 cents a ton for coal in order to meet proper EPA and Clean Water Act standards.

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Where's the Outrage? EPA Betrays Coalfields (Again) With New Mountaintop Removal Permit

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dirty Coal, Bp, Arch Coal, Robert Byrd, Coal, Epa, Peabody, Water, Mountaintop Removal, Lisa Jackson, Green Energy, Green News
Jeff Biggers

President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency has once again gone back on its word and green-lighted a dangerous mountaintop removal permit in a hair-brained pander to Big Coal.

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