Turns out, it’s a number of the country’s largest banks.
In a report out today, several environmental groups rank nine of the biggest players on Wall Street based on their stated policies toward mountaintop removal coal mining, a process in which companies blast away Appalachian peaks More…
The Associated Press is reporting that the FBI is investigating whether Massey Energy, owner of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 workers were killed April 5, should be held criminally liable for the accident.
A federal law enforcement official says the FBI has interviewed nearly two dozen
Quite aside from the questions about Massey Energy’s role in the recent blast that killed 29 miners in West Virginia has been the question of whether the Mine Safety and Health Administration had the power to close the mine based on its long history of safety violations.
And the answer, More…
Even as federal mine-safety regulators are taking heat for not having done enough to close down the doomed West Virginia mine where 29 coal miners were killed this month, Massey Energy, the coal giant that owns the project, has another take: Federal regulators have been too strict in enforcing safety More…
Speaking at the White House this morning, President Obama took Massey Energy to task over last week’s deadly mining explosion in southern West Virginia, saying that the tragedy was “a failure first and foremost of management.”
“Owners responsible for conditions in the Upper Big Branch mine should be More…
White House officials today will begin their investigation of the horrific explosion that killed 29 miners in southern West Virginia a week ago. But, as in similar cases in the past, most of this process will almost certainly be closed to the public, even as Massey lawyers More…
Massey CEO Don Blankenship said this week that piling up safety violations is simply a part of mining coal. He wasn’t kidding.
The Freedom # 1 Mine, a Massey-owned project in Pike County, Ky., has been cited with 54 safety violations in the four days since More…
As rescue teams continue scrambling in search for four missing miners at the Upper Big Branch, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) just shot out a statement on the Massey Energy’s role in the disaster. And here’s a hint: He ain’t happy.
“The more I learn about the extent of these violations More…
First it was toxic gas. Now it’s fire.
For more than three days, rescue teams in Raleigh County, W.Va., have been scrambling to get into the Upper Big Branch Mine, site of Monday’s explosion, in search of four miners still unaccounted for. As the Charleston Gazette’s Ken Ward Jr. More…
Don Blankenship — the unapologetic CEO of Massey Energy, which owns the West Virginia mine where at least 25 coal miners died in an explosion this week — just ended the nearly two-week-long drought on his Twitter page.
“Thought it might help for those of you More…
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