Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is facing three felony counts and thirty years in prison for his direct role in the deaths of 29 coal miners in 2010 at.
On October 15, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, finally providing a path forward for some of the Cold War's most exploited workers, Navajo uranium.
I have a piece up at Dissent on the Animas River mine pollution in Colorado, the toxic history of mining in the U.S. West, and how mining companies have created.
Colorado's Animas River suffered a pollution episode late last week, when an EPA effort to deal with mine waste backed up behind an underground dam actually breached it instead, leading.
Don Blankenship is one of the worst human beings living in the United States today. The CEO of Massey Energy, the horrible safety record in his mines led to the.
On June 1, 1906, copper miners in the city of Cananea, Sonora, a few miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border, went on strike against the American companies dominating the mines.
On March 25, 1947, the Centralia Coal Company's No. 5 mine in Centralia, Illinois exploded, killing 111 workers. This disaster, caused by extremely unsafe working conditions from employers utterly indifferent.
On March 22, 1914, Mary "Mother" Jones was arrested on a train in southern Colorado for her work in fighting for the coal miners on strike that area. This was.
