National Mining Association

Following Mine Disaster, SEC Requiring Coal Firms To Report Safety Problems

AP | VICKI SMITH | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Massey Energy, Video, Massey-Energy-Company, Massey Upper Big Branch Explosion, Joel Bernstein, Securities and Exchange Commission, Massey Mine Disaster, National Mining Association, Mine Disaster, Green News

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A lawyer suing the former Massey Energy Co. says investors might have made better decisions about putting money into the coa...

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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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Historic EPA Action Provokes Hysterical Reaction From the Coal Industry

Matt Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Green Politics, Coal, West Virginia, Epa, Spruce Mine, National Mining Association, Lisa Jackson, Congress, War on Goal, Clean Water Act, Annual Energy Outlook, Energy Information Administration, Ken Ward, Green News
Matt Wasson

In the wake of EPA's veto a large mountaintop removal mine permit, the grandstanding of West Virginia politicians and "sky is falling" rhetoric from the coal industry was hardly surprising.

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Obama Mining Rule Reversal: Environmentalists Slam Obama For Upholding Bush Era Policy

AP | JUDITH KOHLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pew-Environmental-Group, Federal Land, George W. Bush, Mining, 1872-Mining-Act, Bureau of Land Management, Barack Obama, National Mining Association, Denver News

DENVER — The same week President Barack Obama riled environmentalists with plans for offshore oil drilling, he faces criticism for signaling he ...

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Safety Awards That Endanger Workers' Lives

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mine Safety and Health Administration, Massey Energy, Bp, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, Msha, Oil Rig, Usw, Process Safety, United Mine Workers of America, United Steelworkers, Cecil Roberts, Mms, Upper Big Branch, Massey, Transocean, Sentinel of Safety, Safety Awards for Excellence, Don Blankenship, Refinery, Minerals Management Service, Umwa, Deepwater Horizon, Process Safety Management, Tesoro, Coal Mine, Union, National Mining Association, Npra, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

BP, Massey Energy and Tesoro all have hauled out plaques celebrating safety achievements to deflect allegations of corporate recklessness in the after...

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Obama's Picks and the Ideology of No Ideology

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: USA Today, Robert Reich, Economic Crisis, Economy, Constellation Energy, Boeing, David Brooks, Judge Judy, New Yrok Times, PBS "Washington Week", Timothy Geithner, Corporate Power, Mark Weisbrot, Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, National Mining Association, Ideology, Politics News
Norman Solomon

On Friday, columnist David Brooks informed readers that Barack Obama's picks "are not ideological." The incoming president's key economic adviser...

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