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TrueBlueTribune
January 1, 2018
It holds interest in, and operational control over, CONSOL Energy's Pennsylvania Mining Complex, which consists of three underground mines and ... Its Harvey Mine is located directly east of the Bailey and Enlow Fork Mines. ... Massey Energy Company (Massey) is a coal producer in the United States.
The Ledger Gazette
January 1, 2018
Massey Energy Company (Massey) is a coal producer in the United States. ... At January 31, 2011, the Company operated 84 mines, including 66 underground mines (one of which employs both room and pillar and longwall mining) and 18 surface mines (with 12 highwall miners in operation) in WestÃÂ ...
Wheeling Intelligencer
January 1, 2018
Blankenship, who was sentenced to a year in jail and a $250,000 fine for his role in the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion, has declared himself an ... WHEELING — Former Massey Energy CEO and current U.S. Senate candidate Don Blankenship said elected government officials should be held legallyÃÂ ...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
December 29, 2017
The eight deaths in West Virginia this year are the most since 2010, when there were 35, including 29 miners killed in the April explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine, in Raleigh County. The Obama administration tried to toughen safety and health enforcement in the nation's mines followingÃÂ ...
Center for Responsive Politics
December 18, 2017
The difference in this case though is that the 67-year-old coal magnate was just released from prison. Blankenship spent one year in federal prison on a misdemeanor count of conspiring to violate mine safety and health standards following an explosion at one of Massey Energy's West Virginia coal minesÃÂ ...
PolitiFact
December 11, 2017
Blankenship, running as a Republican, spent a year in jail for conspiring to violate mine safety regulations. A jury found that under his leadership as CEO of Massey Energy, the company systematically refused to take steps that would have prevented a deadly combination of methane gas and coal dust thatÃÂ ...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
December 9, 2017
Under the program, mines with a history of serious safety problems are kicked into a tougher enforcement bracket. ... Prior to the April 2010 explosion at Upper Big Branch, mine owner Massey Energy had avoided being classified as a pattern violator by appealing hundreds of violations, clogging up theÃÂ ...
Beckley Register-Herald
December 4, 2017
The impetus for that rule came as investors of Massey Energy complained that the company had misled shareholders by boasting about its commitment to safety while its mines had hundreds of safety violations. That, they argued, caused investors to lose money when stock prices dropped after theÃÂ ...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
December 2, 2017
Don Blankenship says he wants to represent West Virginia in the United States Senate, but for three years, the former Massey Energy CEO has told the ... Early in the criminal case that led to his mine safety conspiracy conviction, Blankenship and his lawyers made those statements to get court approval forÃÂ ...
StockNewsTimes
November 23, 2017
Massey Energy Company (Massey) is a coal producer in the United ... (Resource Groups), many of which receive coal from multiple mines.
Dispatch Tribunal
November 22, 2017
It mines its reserves from the Pittsburgh Number eight Coal Seam, ... Its Harvey Mine is located directly east of the Bailey and Enlow Fork Mines. ... Massey Energy Company (Massey) is a coal producer in the United States.
The Ledger Gazette
November 22, 2017
Massey Energy Company (Massey) is a coal producer in the United ... At January 31, 2011, the Company operated 84 mines, including 66Â ...
The Ledger Gazette
November 21, 2017
Massey Energy Company (Massey) is a coal producer in the United ... (Resource Groups), many of which receive coal from multiple mines.
StockNewsTimes
November 20, 2017
Its projects include Carlisle Mine, Ace in the Hole Mine, Oaktown 1 Mine, ... Massey Energy Company (Massey) is a coal producer in the United States. ... At January 31, 2011, the Company operated 84 mines, including 66Â ...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
November 15, 2017
Senate confirms ex-coal executive Zatezalo to run mine safety agency ... tried to toughen safety and health enforcement in the nation's mines following ... in an April 2010 explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine, ...
Triple Pundit (blog)
November 7, 2017
In 1907 the mine safety issue reached critical mass with an explosion at two connected mines owned by the Fairmont Coal Company. ... in 2010, when 29 coal miners were killed at a Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine.
West Virginia MetroNews
October 12, 2017
... made against him by former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship. ... Adequate mine airflow is the most critical element to avoiding both gas ...
Business Insurance
October 11, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review former Massey Energy Co. CEO Don Blankenship's conviction for willfully violating U.S. mine ...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
October 4, 2017
... Donald Trump to run the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration ... lung disease, former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship and his ... “Inspections in the mines in the United States are a necessity,” Zatezalo said.
HuffPost
October 4, 2017
Donald Blankenship, the former Massey Energy CEO who served a year ... 2010 deaths of 29 coal miners at Massey's Upper Big Branch mine.
Lexington Herald Leader
September 27, 2017
Manchin opposes Zatezalo to head federal mine safety ... the April 2010 explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
Insurance Journal
September 17, 2017
Attorneys for former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship have made a last pitch to the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out his conviction ...
Merced Sun-Star
September 16, 2017
Attorneys for former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship have made ... out his conviction connected to a 2010 West Virginia mine explosion ...
Parkersburg News
December 31, 1999
Mine Safety: Reducing transparency is a misguided idea ... Big Branch Mine and amid questions about whether Massey Energy investors were misled ... and allow people to be employed in these mines and feed their families.
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
December 31, 1999
It also followed the 2010 deaths of 29 miners at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch Mine and amid questions about whether Massey Energy ...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
December 31, 1999
Va., speaks about a bill to eliminate mine safety disclosures for investors ... the deaths of 29 miners at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine and amid ... to be employed in these mines and feed their families,” Mooney said.
Fox Business
December 31, 1999
The U.S. Supreme Court won't take up the case of the former CEO of Massey Energy, the owner of a West Virginia mine where 29 workers were ...
Poughkeepsie Journal
March 24, 2017
I don't know if his statement is true about "only three percent of our coal mines (contributed) information and best practices" but when the 2010 Massey Energy mining explosion that took 29 lives occurred, it had 1,300 safety violations and $1.89 ...
Southernminn.com
March 23, 2017
The publication mentioned that among his highest profile cases as a federal judge have been allowing the Department of Labor to go ahead with an injunction against Massey Energy Co., for the company's record of mine safety violations. While making theÃÂ ...
The National Law Journal (registration)
March 21, 2017
He's ruled for and against major corporations - in 2010, he declined to block a Labor Department injunction against Massey Energy Co. for coal mine safety violations. He ruled for paint company Sherwin-Williams in 2015 when a store manager sued underÃÂ ...
EcoWatch
March 18, 2017
... state led the nation in mining deaths in 2016 and has already seen two deaths in 2017; but in spite of this grim history the coal industry has proposed the complete elimination of state health and safety regulations and inspections in the West ...
MyDaytonDailyNews
March 10, 2017
Michael Henninger/MCT Joe Manchin, a former governor and current senator of West Virginia, speaks during a press conference at Marsh Fork Elementary School in Whitesville, W.Va.
McClatchy Washington Bureau
March 2, 2017
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by, from left, Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, meets with reporters on Capitol Hill before President Donald Trump's speech to the nation,ÃÂ ...
Minnesota Lawyer
March 1, 2017
A federal appeals court has refused to rehear the case of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship in the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the order Friday. In January, a three-judge panel ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 27, 2017
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A federal appeals court has refused to rehear the case of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship in the deadliest U.S.
Beckley Register-Herald
February 26, 2017
After all, just after Jarrod left the industry, Alpha Natural Resources laid of scores of miners at the Kingston Mines were given layoff notices.
WVVA TV (registration)
February 24, 2017
A federal appeals court has refused to rehear the case of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship in the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the order Friday. In January, a three-judge panel ...
WVAH
February 24, 2017
CHARLESTON, WV (WCHS/WVAH) - Former Massey Energy chief executive officer Don Blankenship's petition for a rehearing of his appeal of his conviction has been denied by the U.S.
WVAH
February 24, 2017
Since May, the former Massey Energy chief executive officer has been serving a one-year sentence at a California prison for conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards. Blankenship's misdemeanor conviction came after 24 days of testimony inÃÂ ...
WCYB
February 24, 2017
A federal appeals court has refused to rehear the case of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship in the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the order Friday. In January, a three-judge panel ...
Movie City News
February 23, 2017
The United Mine Workers of America protested the reorganizations, as they led to drastic cuts in health-care benefits and pensions for the existing employees, and prompted layoffs when ICG sold two of its union mines to Massey Energy Group. ICG ...
KITV Honolulu
February 22, 2017
December 6, 1907 - Worst coal mine disaster in US history: 362 miners are killed in an explosion at the Monongah Nos. 6 and 8 Coal Mines in Monongah, West Virginia. ... February 29, 2012 - Hughie Elbert Stover, former security director for Massey ...
Gant Daily
February 22, 2017
December 6, 1907 - Worst coal mine disaster in US history: 362 miners are killed in an explosion at the Monongah Nos. 6 and 8 Coal Mines in Monongah, West Virginia. ... February 29, 2012 - Hughie Elbert Stover, former security director for Massey ...
Gant Daily
February 22, 2017
December 6, 1907 - Worst coal mine disaster in US history: 362 miners are killed in an explosion at the Monongah Nos. 6 and 8 Coal Mines in Monongah, West Virginia. ... February 29, 2012 - Hughie Elbert Stover, former security director for Massey ...
World Socialist Web Site
February 6, 2017
A three-judge panel of the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed the conviction of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship last month.
Beckley Register-Herald
February 3, 2017
Ruby, who spent eight years at the U.S. Attorney's office, was part of the team that successfully prosecuted former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship in December 2015. Blankenship was found guilty of conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards.
The Daily Progress
February 1, 2017
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Ruby, who landed the conviction of ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, has resigned to become a partner at the Charleston office of Bailey & Glasser LLP.
The Union of Grass Valley
January 29, 2017
Mine Safety Administration: Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy Company, is a corporate executive who actually went to jail for a mine explosion that killed 29 workers. He was convicted of violating mine safety and health standards, and ...
Virginia Lawyers Weekly
January 27, 2017
The 4th Circuit affirms the conviction, one-year prison term and $250,000 fine for the former CEO of Massey Energy Company for conspiracy to violate federal mine safety laws and regulations, in the wake of the death of 29 miners in 2010 at the Upper ...
Richmond.com
January 25, 2017
... with the convicted former Massey Energy CEO in prison. Blankenship's attorneys filed a brief Wednesday with the 4th U.S.
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