MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A former president of Massey Energy's White Buck Coal Co. will enter a plea on federal conspiracy charges in January as pro...

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.

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....

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- After a marathon mediation session that ended just before dawn Wednesday, mining company Massey Energy settled a 7-year-old lawsu...

WASHINGTON -- The federal agency tasked with overseeing mine safety released on Wednesday its preliminary findings on the Upper Big Branch Mine disast...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Troubled coal producer Massey Energy Co. has been cited for more than two dozen serious safety violations that could have caused ...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Massey Energy plans to resume extracting coal by constructing a new entrance to its Upper Big Branch mine within months, des...

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...

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...

Five areas in the historic Blair Mountain Battlefield in West Virginia are being bulldozed into oblivion by reckless Big Coal mountaintop removal operations.

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have decided not to convene a public hearing in the early stages of their investigation into the deadly explosio...

Alarmed by reports that Massey Energy officials are intimidating miners and their families, the Department of Labor announced today that it is launchi...

Nearly four years ago, retired coal miner and grandfather Ed Wiley walked from Charleston, West Virginia to Washington, DC, asking state and federal o...

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.