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Commentary: Appalachian Workers Are Still Paying the Price for Bosses’ Greed
04 May 2025 03:28 GMT
… Don Blankenship, former CEO of Massey Energy: “If a tool is broke … Virginia. His work to stop mountaintop removal coal mining has included …
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Commentary: Appalachian Workers Are Still Paying the Price for Bosses’ Greed
08 Apr 2025 19:22 GMT
… Don Blankenship, former CEO of Massey Energy: “If a tool is broke … . His work to stop mountaintop removal coal mining has included … Don Blankenship, former CEO of Massey Energy: “If a tool is … . His work to stop mountaintop removal coal mining has included …
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With WV struggling at the bottom, Manchin exits Senate touting the middle
02 Jan 2025 11:04 GMT
… West Virginians up toward the mountaintop with him?
As Manchin’s … briefing following the explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch …
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After 20 years of red tape, business dealings and broken promises, a Mingo County drag racing strip may finally open
02 Aug 2024 12:15 GMT
… a former Mingo County mountaintop. Hundreds of car enthusiasts … to fruition on a mountaintop removal mining site. They … April 2010 explosion.
Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship walks … water quality damage from mountaintop removal, federal regulators were …
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A “Trumpier Than Trump” Disgraced West Virginia Coal Baron Is Running for Senate as a Democrat
27 Jan 2024 23:46 GMT
Former Massey Energy CEO and West Virginia … Massey Energy, a massive coal company, Blankenship helped lead a program of mountaintop … mine coal more cheaply. Mountaintop removal has dire consequences for … was in charge of Massey Energy have criticized the newly- …
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West Virginians Could Get Stuck Cleaning Up the Coal Industry’s Messes
01 Dec 2023 12:20 GMT
… of its operations, the Twilight Mountaintop Removal Mine, was once among … their political supporters scoffed that mountaintop removal mining would destroy the … disaster, the mine’s owner, Massey Energy, was bought by Alpha Natural …
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The truth is still inconvenient
15 Mar 2023 18:23 GMT
… during a protest against mountaintop removal mining at Massey Energy Co.
Hansen once …
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What happened to the ‘war on coal’ in West Virginia?
14 Jul 2022 18:20 GMT
… the Tennessee-based anti-mountaintop removal organization Mountain Justice … Watch cohort learned that Massey Energy had acquired a permit … to fill streams with mountaintop removal waste. Activists … , to fly over mountaintop removal projects and document …
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WV is high on environmental hazards but low on environmental justice protections
31 May 2022 19:17 GMT
… of the Naoma-based anti-mountaintop coal mining nonprofit Coal River … respective water pollution settlements with Massey Energy and the company that bought … recent years.
Studies have linked mountaintop coal mining in West Virginia …
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West Virginia Week in History - Julia Bonds
18 Apr 2022 17:17 GMT
… an organization opposed to mountaintop removal. In 1999, Bonds … in 2001. She fought mountaintop removal by organizing protest … companies in general and Massey Energy in particular. Taking great … Country, and Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & the Fight …
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