Massey Mine

Dave Jamieson

Profits Before Safety Cost 29 Miners Their Lives: Feds

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.06.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Federal officials released a damning report Tuesday on the Upper Big Branch coal mining disaster, citing "corporate culture" at coal gia...

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Trial Begins For Security Chief Tied To Deadly Mine Blast

AP | By JOHN RABY | Posted 12.24.2011

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BECKLEY, W.Va. -- Federal prosecutors said Monday that the former security chief at a West Virginia coal mine where 29 miners died in a 2010 explosion...

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Persistent Black Lung, Old Scourge Of Coal, Found In Autopsies Of Most Massey Miners

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 07.19.2011

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Feds Sue To Close Massey Mine In Kentucky Over Safety Violations

AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The U.S. Department of Labor filed an unprecedented federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to close a mine operated by troubled c...

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Dan Froomkin

West Virginia Mine Explosion Leads To More Enforcement And Disclosure

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was back on April 5, right around the afternoon shift change, when methane gas or coal dust or both suddenly ignited in the Upper Big Branch coal m...

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Massey Mines: Serious Problems Found Since Explosion Killed 29 Miners

AP | TIM HUBER and LAWRENCE MESSINA | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Federal inspectors have found more than 60 serious safety violations at Massey Energy operations since the explosion that ki...

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Dan Froomkin

Was Lack Of Government Transparency A Factor In Mine Deaths?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Back in January, three months before the massive explosion that killed 29 miners at a Massey Energy mine in West Virginia, a federal mine safety inspe...

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Massey Mine Investigation: Investigators Making First Visit To West Virginia Mine

AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The underground search for clues to the nation's worst coal mining disaster in 40 years started Wednesday as two teams began...

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Lucia Graves

Blankenship, Massey CEO, Insists He Did Nothing Wrong

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

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Six weeks after the massive explosion that killed 29 miners at a Massey Energy mine in West Virginia, Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy, still see...

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