News tagged with “massey energy”. Found:
19 tagged news reports.
Your Search Returned 19 tagged news reports
W.Va. coalfields residents criticize blasting
Charleston :: SC :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility
W.Va. — A group of Coal River Valley residents is speaking out about a Massey Energy Co. mining operation near Whitesville. Five residents from the region plan to air their concerns at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Charleston on Friday. They...
Tags: Coal River Mountain, Coal River Valley, Massey Energy Co., AM W.Va., Charleston, Coal, Mountaintop removal mining, Massey Energy, Coal River, Disaster Accident, Environment
Does studying improve students' grades?
Beckley :: WV :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility A bat biologist from Boston University is studying white-nose syndrome in the Taconic Mountains, site of the largest bat hibernaculum in the Northeast . The Boston Globe reports on Thomas Kunz, a renowned bat biologist, and his research on the disease...
Tags: Kentucky, Beckley, Taconic Mountains, Hospitality Recreation, Autism, Massey Energy, Mountaintop removal mining
Q&A with Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy Co.
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 15 days ago
Credibility The Senate has slow-walked a climate bill this fall, concentrating instead on healthcare reform, and isn’t expected to take up a bill before the end of the year, although leaders insist they’ll put a cap on carbon in 2010. Meanwhile, world leaders say...
Tags: Don Blankenship, Massey Energy Co., Denmark, Copenhagen, Massey Energy, Blankenship, Environment
High stakes in Appalachia as greens battle Big Coal
Whitesville :: KY :: USA | 17 days ago
Credibility Miner's widow Lorelei Scarbro is searching for an alternative to coal. W.VA.–The plan was painfully simple: save a mountain, turn a country, cool the Earth. And for the longest time, it seemed to be working here on Coal River Mountain, ground zero in...
Tags: Coal River Mountain Watch, river mountains, Chuck Nelson, bad guys, Lorelei Scarbro, Appalachia, American, U.S, Whitesville, Mountaintop removal mining, Clean coal, Sludge, Surface mining, Climate change, Coal, Massey Energy, Environment
Mayfly may put at risk $3 billion in coal
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 17 days ago
Credibility Mayflies may seal the fate of mountaintop mining in the Appalachian hills of the eastern U.S. Companies such as Massey Energy Co. that mine coal there by stripping mountain peaks and dumping debris in streams are being asked by the Environmental Protection...
Tags: mountaintops mining, Appalachia, Massey Energy Co., EPA, International Coal Group Inc., West Virginia, U.S, Seattle, Patriot Coal Corporation, International Coal Group, Coal, Peabody Energy Corporation, Mountaintop removal mining, Massey Energy, Surface mining, Disaster Accident, Environment
W.Va. Supreme Court opts for e-mail privacy
Charleston :: SC :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility The state Supreme Court has ruled that public officials and public employees can keep their personal e-mails private. The court ruled 4-1 Thursday that none of the 13 e-mails between former Supreme Court Chief Justice Elliott "Spike" Maynard and Massey...
Tags: Massey Energy Co, U.S. Supreme Court, W.Va, Charleston, Massey Energy, Don Blankenship, Menis Ketchum, Law Crime, The Appeal, Brent Benjamin, Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., Spike Maynard, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, Year of birth missing, Blankenship, Supreme Court of Ireland, Mountaintop removal mining, Supreme Court of the United States
Massey relents on sanctions over shareholder suit
Reno :: NV :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Officials at Massey Energy have changed their minds about seeking sanctions against those responsible for a dismissed lawsuit. A shareholder had sued Massey directors and top officials, faulting them for alleged environmental and worker safety law violations...
Verizon ignores conservationist's request to withdraw sponsorship of coal mining rally
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.—According to a press release from Center of Biological Diversity, a coalition of more than 40 conservation and faith organizations representing millions of Americans sent a letter to Verizon Wireless on Friday asking...
Tags: mountain top coal mining, Center for Biological Diversity, Verizon Wireless, greenhouse gas, NRDC, Defenders of Wildlife, Massey Energy, Friends of America
Climate bill slammed at pro-coal West Virginia rally
Holden :: MA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility W.Va. — The chief executive of coal mining giant Massey Energy blasted supporters of climate-change legislation and other environmental issues affecting the coal industry at a free Labor Day concert and rally in southern West Virginia. CEO Don Blankenship...
Tags: Don Blankenship, West Virginia, Massey Energy, coal industry, American, change legislation, southern west, blasts supporters
Verizon Taking a Tip from Healthcare Deniers
With the Obama Administration pledging to make the US a leader in renewable energy, and the US Senate poised to take up a comprehensive climate bill this month, global warming deniers and clean energy opponents must be getting a little worried. ...
Tags: Verizon, healthcare, global warming, Massey Energy, Don Blackenship, clean energy, coal, deniers, rally
Site Links
Site Topics
Contributions
- Report Your News
- Add your voice and contribute via your cellphone - check out how to Report News via Your Cellphone
- Blog Widget
- Widget for Blog Owner
