Massey Energy (coal)

The strike developed in the aftermath of another, less-fortunate, strike against Massey subsidiaries earlier in the decade. Like Pittston would later do, Massey withdrew from the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, the industry bargaining group. This was the beginning of Massey's long run of union ...

The ex-Massey Energy CEO is one of six Republicans in next month's primary for the seat of incumbent Sen. Joe Manchin, who faces one opponent in the Democratic primary. Blankenship served a one-year prison term on charges stemming from the 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine that killed ...

The ex-Massey Energy CEO is one of six Republicans in next month's primary for the seat of incumbent Sen. Joe Manchin, who faces one opponent in the Democratic primary. Blankenship served a one-year prison term on charges stemming from the 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine that killed 29 men in West ...

Massey Energy Company (Massey) is a coal producer in the United States. The Company produces, processes and sells bituminous coal of various steam and metallurgical grades, primarily of a low sulfur content, through its 25 processing and shipping centers (Resource Groups), many of which receive ...

Her husband, Charles Timothy Davis, worked at UBB, then operated by Performance Coal Co., a subsidiary of Massey Energy Co. His was one of the four bodies found by a rescue crew in the headgate entry to the longwall. The lawsuit, in which the United States is a defendant, says MSHA didn't do its job ...

He's the disgraced former CEO of Massey Energy, as in, the energy company responsible for a coal mining disaster that killed 29 people in 2010. The company had racked up over one thousand warnings about unsafe conditions prior to the incident. West Virginia is coal country, so is it really a good move ...

One of these days if we don't get serious about it the jig's going to be up,” Blankenship, the controversial ex-Massey Energy boss, said in The ... Blankenship, 68, a former coal company CEO who went to prison for charges stemming from the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in decades, will face U.S. Rep.

In 2010 an explosion at a coal mine operated by Massey Energy killed 29 men. In 2015 Don Blankenship, the company's former C.E.O., was sent to prison for conspiring to violate mine safety standards. In 2018, Blankenship appears to have a real chance at becoming the Republican candidate for senator ...

Admittedly, this part of the state was not his power base when he was the bottom-line-driven CEO of Massey Energy, one of the state's largest mining companies. (“I used to come up here to sell coal,” he told me later in an interview. “Before Obama.”) But the almost nonexistent turnout seemed about right for ...

But Mr. Trump has done a world of good for coal mine owners, like those of Massey Energy, the company Mr. Blankenship used to run, by gutting regulations on environmental protection and worker safety and health. Now a man with so little regard for regulation that he was convicted of violating federal ...

Indeed, one post-disaster profile of Blankenship called him “the Snidely Whiplash of coal, a larger-than-life figure so swaggering and creepy that his each next outrageous claim as chairman and C.E.O. of Massey Energy makes wonderful copy.” But Blankenship is wealthy enough to self-finance, and has so ...

Blankenship is the former chief executive of the Massey Energy Company where an explosion in the Upper Big Branch coal mine killed 29 men in 2010. Blankenship served a one-year sentence for conspiracy to violate mine safety laws. Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Xcel also has a complex relationship with ...

Senate Candidate and Former Coal CEO Don Blankenship Blames MSHA, Considers Conviction A 'Badge of Honor' in West Virginia ... WHEELING — Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship considers his misdemeanor conviction for issues surrounding the deaths of 29 coal miners to be “a badge of ...

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She sat on committees overseeing safety and corporate governance at Massey Energy when a coal dust explosion killed 29 workers in West Virginia in 2010 ... and union groups had said Judge, who held multiple directorships, would not be able to devote enough time to addressing Massey's safety issues.

Massey Energy Company (Massey) is a coal producer in the United States. The Company produces, processes and sells bituminous coal of various steam and metallurgical grades, primarily of a low sulfur content, through its 25 processing and shipping centers (Resource Groups), many of which receive ...

Residents are experiencing the latest in a long string of contamination and service problems punctuated by Massey Energy's coal slurry spill in 2000. Now, the system is facing catastrophic failures…and residents might be forced to spend hundreds more on this shoddy and dangerous water service.

River Run Manor, the 16,000-square-foot mansion owned by members of Richmond's Massey family, was relisted Feb. ... built in the mid-1980s by the late William B. Massey, a longtime Richmond coal executive whose grandfather founded A.T. Massey Coal Co., more recently known as Massey Energy.

In October of 2000, a coal slurry pond owned by a subsidiary of Massey Energy released 306 million gallons of toxic black sludge into our waterways. Some say that was a long time ago, it was a mistake, and that we need to move on. Not true. The pattern of abuse and the coverup that prevented Massey ...

Ever since A.T. Massey founded a coal company in 1920, the Massey family has been a fixture of the Richmond, Va., area. By 2011, Massey Energy had grown into the largest coal company in the Central Appalachian region, and was sold to Bristol, Va.-based Alpha Natural Resources Inc. for $7.1 billion in ...

The stunt was first reported by Taylor Kuykendall, a fellow coal reporter for the S&P Global Market Intelligence, the news and financial data website. The speaker, Robert McLusky, is lead attorney for Massey Energy, which owned the Upper Big Branch mine when it exploded in 2010, killing 29 workers.

Come November, Manchin's Republican opponent could end up being Don Blankenship, the former head of Massey Energy Company. Following a huge blast at a Massey mine in 2010, which killed 29 miners, Blankenship was convicted and sentenced to prison for conspiring to violate federal mine safety ...

Her husband, Charles Timothy Davis, worked at UBB, then operated by Performance Coal Co., a subsidiary of Massey Energy Co. ... Davis' lawyers emphasized that the lawsuit doesn't side with Don Blankenship, former Massey Energy CEO, who has repeatedly insisted that federal regulators - not he nor ...

The lawsuit, filed by attorneys with Stanley & Schmitt PC, claims MSHA had full knowledge of the poor practices of Massey Energy following the Aracoma Alma Mine accident in 2006, which killed two coal miners, and did little to prevent the disaster at Upper Big Branch mine that left 29 coal miners dead.

Nearly a year after Don Blankenship left federal prison and in the middle of his U.S. Senate campaign, the coal magnate still is facing legal ... On Tuesday, West Virginia Supreme Court Justices heard arguments in a case in which shareholders of Massey Energy said company officials sought to shield ...

After 3-plus years on market, Georgian Revival-style Massey mansion gets new brokers ... River Run Manor was built in the mid-1980s by the late William B. Massey, a longtime Richmond coal executive whose grandfather founded A.T. Massey Coal Co., more recently known as Massey Energy.

“They railroaded him,” said Steve Blair, a retiree who worked in mines run by Mr. Blankenship when he was the chief executive of the Massey Energy Company, once the largest coal producer in central Appalachia. “The federal government turned everybody loose to testify against him, just to get rid of him.”.