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Blood Money: Will WVU Honor Coal Miner Heroes and Students or Violating Dirty Coal Barons?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Robert Murray, University, Dirty Coal, College Endowment, Crandall Canyon Mine Disaster, Don Blankenship, Big Coal, Msha, Mountaintop Removal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

This might be the shameless story of the week: Either that, or West Virginia University president James P. Clements has a lot of explaining to do.

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Joseph Main, Obama's Mine Safety Chief, Praised By Advocates

McClatchy | Halimah Abdullah | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama's choice to head the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration signals a dramatic shift from his predecessor on mine safety...

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Obama Appointments: Time for a Coal-Onoscopy

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Dirty Coal, President-Elect Barack Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Msha, Labor Department, Office of Surface Mining, Department of Interior, Big Coal, Obama Transition, Department of Energy, Cabinet Appointments, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeff Biggers

If President-elect Obama is truly serious about affecting climate change... then we must end the appointment of coal and other extraction industry executives.

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King Coal: Willing To Kill For Kilowatts

Kerry Trueman | Posted 08.03.2008 | Green

Read More: Crandall Canyon Mining Disaster, Genwal Resources, Richard Stickler, Retreat Mining, Bob Murray, Coal Mining, Msha, Green News
Kerry Trueman

What we've got here is a government agency and a corporation who shared the mindset that a miner's life has less value than the coal that lies so deep that you're courting disaster to extract it.

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Mine Safety Agency Was "Negligent" In Protecting Utah Miners

Huffington Post | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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The Labor Department's Inspector General said Monday that the federal agency responsible for ensuring the safety of the nation's coal miners was "negl...

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Safety Fears Shut Another Murray Energy Mine In Utah

Huffington Post | Posted 04.06.2008 | Home

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An energy company that owned the Crandall Canyon mine where nine people were killed in two collapses last August has shut another of its Utah coal min...

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4,000 Mine Safety Violations Ignored On Bush Administration Watch

Charleston (W.V.) Gazette | Ken Ward Jr | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Labor, Richard Stickler, Mine Safety Violations, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Mine Safety, Msha, Politics News

Federal regulators have allowed mine operators to avoid fines for thousands of health and safety citations, despite a federal law that requires moneta...

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Utah's Tower Mine Set To Resume Operations

Salt Lake Tribune | Robert Gehrke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Utah Mine Disaster, Crandall Canyon, Tower Mine, Utah Mine, Msha, Crandall Canyon Disaster, Politics News

Federal safety regulators have given the go-ahead to resume operations at the Tower mine, where 170 miners have been idled since shortly after the dis...

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Max Follmer

Tougher Mine Safety Rules Clear Hurdle In House

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Murray, Richard Stickler, Msha, Mining, Crandall Canyon, Mine, Utah, Bob Murray, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Politics News

A panel of lawmakers investigating the August mine disaster that claimed nine lives at Crandall Canyon in Utah approved tougher mine safety rules Wedn...

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Feds Fight To Keep Utah Mine Investigation Docs From Public

CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Robert Murray, Richard Stickler, Utah Mine Disaster, MSHA, Department of Labor, Crandall Canyon, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Bob Murray, Home News

Court proceedings of the investigation into the collapse of Utah's Crandall Canyon mine should not be made public, argue attorneys for the Mine Safety...

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