Two weeks ago I stood waiting to get into a hearing in Charleston, W.Va contesting a $35 million settlement in a case in which Rawl Sales, a Massey subsidiary, allegedly poisoned the water of 700 residents.
The Huffington Post | James Gerken | Posted 11.21.2011
Should a corporation with a track record of frequent legal violations be allowed to operate? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Free Speech For People say no....
AP | By VICKI SMITH | Posted 11.01.2011
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- After a marathon mediation session that ended just before dawn Wednesday, mining company Massey Energy settled a 7-year-old lawsu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 08.29.2011
WASHINGTON -- The federal agency tasked with overseeing mine safety released on Wednesday its preliminary findings on the Upper Big Branch Mine disast...
AP | By TIM HUBER | Posted 07.04.2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Troubled coal producer Massey Energy Co. has been cited for more than two dozen serious safety violations that could have caused ...
AP | Posted 07.02.2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Massey Energy Co. is moving to seal a West Virginia coal mine where 29 miners died in an explosion a year ago. A federal Mine Sa...
AP | By TIM HUBER | Posted 05.28.2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Massey Energy Co. has been hit with more than 80 citations for safety violations uncovered in the latest round of special inspect...
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
The U.S. media seems to have found a new language for the economy. There's been talk of "solidarity" and even "class war." The only problem? They're talking about Egypt.
Ellen Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
The fatal April 5 explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine started with a frictional ignition on the longwall face involving as little at 13 cubic feet of methane that would not normally be expected to cause such devastation.
AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 05.25.2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Faced with a small methane gas fire that couldn't be extinguished in a highly volatile underground mine, at least two victim...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
As the Labor Department made an unprecedented move yesterday to file a court injunction to shut down a hazardous Massey Energy coal mine in eastern Ke...
Richard Trumka | Posted 05.25.2011
While I cheered for the miners coming up from the ground beneath the Atacama Desert, it was painful to recognize yet another sign of the dangerous, corporate-driven agenda that has far more regard for the bottom line than for working people.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
Mother Jones, the miner's angel, may be gone, but Mother Jones magazine just called out International Coal Group -- who gave us the Sago, WV tragedy -- for 20,000 clean water violations.
AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 05.25.2011
JULIAN, W.Va. — About the time Michael Elswick was wrapping up work deep inside the Upper Big Branch mine, he phoned a colleague on the surface ...
AP | VICKI SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A 36-foot crack in the Upper Big Branch mine isn't venting methane and didn't contribute to a blast in April that killed 29 ...
AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 05.25.2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Massey Energy plans to resume extracting coal by constructing a new entrance to its Upper Big Branch mine within months, des...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Don Blankenship, whose Upper Big Branch coal mine had been cited hundreds of times for safety violations before it blew up in April killing 29 workers...
Swamp Politics | Kim Geiger | Posted 05.25.2011
Massey Energy Co. CEO Don Blankenship has a tough week ahead. Blankenship, whose actions at the Massey helm have been under scrutiny after a massive e...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
Five areas in the historic Blair Mountain Battlefield in West Virginia are being bulldozed into oblivion by reckless Big Coal mountaintop removal operations.
AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have decided not to convene a public hearing in the early stages of their investigation into the deadly explosio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Alarmed by reports that Massey Energy officials are intimidating miners and their families, the Department of Labor announced today that it is launchi...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
Nearly four years ago, retired coal miner and grandfather Ed Wiley walked from Charleston, West Virginia to Washington, DC, asking state and federal o...
Javier Sierra | Posted 05.25.2011
It's an extraordinary lesson in civic pride and patriotism that Hispanics, one of the country's most underserved communities, are willing to make sacrifices for the common good.
AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The government will start going directly to federal court to shut down mines that make a habit of ignoring safety, the nation's top...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
Laurence Leamer | Posted 12.11.2011