Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship will be sentenced next year on a conviction of conspiring to violate safety rules...
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A 48-foot black granite monument with life-size silhouettes of 29 fallen miners defines this small Appalachian town, just downhill from...
To hear Donald L. Blankenship tell it, the U.S. coal industry has been undone by inept regulators, evil unions, the...
Former Massey Energy Chief Executive Don Blankenship was found guilty in federal court on Thursday of conspiring to violate safety...
Massey Energy executives used an advanced warning system at the company’s Upper Big Branch mine to alert workers as soon...
Two companies have been cited by West Virginia regulators for alleged violations found during investigations of separate fatal mine accidents....
Former Massey Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Donald Blankenship, facing criminal trial over an April 2010 explosion that killed 29...
A former state mine inspector has pleaded guilty in federal court to taking bribes from former Kentucky lawmaker Keith Hall....
The nation’s coal mines set a record for the lowest number of on-the-job fatalities last year, with 16. The U.S....
Less than five years after an explosion fueled by excess coal dust killed 29 men deep inside a West Virginia...