Mine Disaster

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

AP | VICKI SMITH | Posted 02.22.2012

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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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Ordinary Citizens Fight Big Coal in The Last Mountain

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Maria Gunnoe, Particulates, Bo Webb. Mountain Justice Summer, Mountaintop Blasting, George W. Bush, Documentary Film, Penn Future, Obama, Coal River Mountain, Bruce Mansfield Power Plant, Coal, Ed Wiley, Electricity, Activism, Coal River Valley, John Kennedy, Susan Bird, Asthma, New Source Rule, Robert F. Kenedy Jr., The Last Mountain, Ovec, Massey Energy, Joe Manchin Greenhouse Gases, Silicosis, Alpha Natural Resources, Green, Uncommon Productions, EPA Fine, Bill Haney, Appalachian Mountains, Coal Lobby, Mine Disaster, Heavy Metals, Jennifer Hall-Massey, Green News, Toxic Fly Ash, Ozone, Video, Green News

Featuring citizen activists fighting for clean air and water against entrenched interests and corporate dollars, the documentary combines backstory, statistics, and human interest to explain more fully the narrative of where our electricity comes from.

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West Virginia Mine Disaster: One Year Later, Safety Overhaul Stalled

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 06.04.2011

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NEW YORK -- A year after the worst coal mining accident in decades took the lives of 29 workers, prompting urgent calls to revamp oversight of one of ...

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Excessive Coal Dust Blamed For WV Mine Disaster

AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Another Deadly Mine Disaster

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Mine Disaster, Dapo Mine, China Mine Flood, China Mine, Mine Disaster, World News

BEIJING — State media says a coal mine flood in southwestern China has killed 12 people, adding more casualties to the thousands killed each yea...

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The Great Wait: Survival Secrets of the 33 Miners Trapped in Chile

Ben Sherwood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andes Plane Crash, Survivors Club, Chile, San Jose Mine, Los 33, Miracle of San Jose, Miners, Mine Collapse, Survivors, Chilean Miners, The Survivors Club, Mine Disaster, World News

The miners call it Hell. The only thing missing is the fire and brimstone. Half a mile underground in northern Chile, 33 men are trapped in a cramped shelter where the temperature is a constant 85 degrees.

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Massey CEO Blankenship On Mine Disaster: No Regrets

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Gulf Oil Rig Disaster And Mine Explosion Highlight Weak Safety Regulations

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Spill, Deepwater Horizon, Msha, Oil Rig Disaster, Gulf Oil Spill, Mms, Osha, Safety Regulations, Mine Disaster, Politics News

"I have here before me a pile of news clips collected over the last couple of weeks describing workers, men and women, young and old who have been cru...

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Upper Big Branch Disaster: Concern About Intimidation By Massey Prompts Mine Safety Investigators To Solicit Anonymous Tips

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Massey Intimidation, Massey Energy, Massey, Blankenship, Mine Investigation, Msha, Upper Big Branch, Upper Big Branch Disaster, Mine Disaster, Green News

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

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FBI Investigating Fed Officials And Massey Energy Over Possibly Bribery

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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NPR News reports that the FBI is investigating the possible bribery of federal officials overseeing mining industry regulation by Massey Energy, the o...

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Was Lack Of Government Transparency A Factor In Mine Deaths?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mine Safety Administration, Mine Deaths, Massey Energy, West Virginia Mine, Massey Mine, Mine Safety, Government Transparency, Mine, Mine Disaster, Big Branch Mine, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Politics News

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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Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster: Should Investigation Be Public?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mining Disaster, Mine Disaster Hearing, West Virginia, Mining, Upper Big Branch Mine, Mine Hearing, Mine Disaster, Politics News

Ken Ward Jr., who writes the 'Coal Tattoo' blog for West Virginia's Charleston Gazette, argued on Monday that the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administ...

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Daughter of Coal Country Speaks to the Silence

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Appalachia, Upper Big Branch Mine, Coal, Appalachian Media Institute, Youth Radio, West Virginia, Coal Mining, Mountain Top Removal, Willa Johnson, Environmentalism, Youthradio, Mine Disaster, Politics News

Coal still haunts people here in Eastern Kentucky and scares them into thinking they can't live without it, but watching what's happening in West Virginia, how can we possibly live with it?

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Indonesia Mine Blast Kills At Least 28, With More Still Trapped

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Indonesia Mine Blast, Indonesia, Indonesia Mine, West Sumatra, Asia, Sawah Lunto, Foreign Affairs, Mine Disaster, World News

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The death toll from an explosion at a coal mine believed triggered by a gas leak rose to 31 after rescuers unearthed more b...

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