On February 26, 1972, a Pittston Coal Company slurry dam collapsed in Logan County, West Virginia. The ensuing flood of coal slurry would kill 125 people and demonstrate once again the horrific contempt the coal industry has for the people of West Virginia. Coal slurry...
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If you wanted to develop a corporation that personified evil, you couldn't do better than Freedom Industries: Federal and state officials were scrambling today following the surprise disclosure on Tuesday.
Why doesn't West Virginia have decent environmental regulations? Because the state legislature has to approve each one! West Virginia imposes an unusual hurdle for its Department of Environmental Protection: Regulations.
The true meaning of freedom is Freedom Industries declaring bankruptcy immediately after its chemical spill made water unsafe for 300,000 West Virginia residents. Freedom owes $3.6 million to its top 20 unsecured creditors, according to bankruptcy documents. The company also owes more than $2.4 million...
Sure am glad the relevant agencies declared West Virginia water safe now after the Freedom Industries chemical spill: “What we are seeing when we talk to our partners in hospital.
John Boehner gives his official approval to a regulatory regime that allows companies to cut off the water supply for 300,000 people. More on the lax regulations of West Virginia.
I now see why the Republicans passed the bill to gut Superfund. It's clearly unnecessary, what with a company actually named Freedom Industries taking care of the good people of West Virginia. Schools and restaurants closed, grocery stores sold out of bottled water, and state...
On December 30, 1969, Richard Nixon signed the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act into law. The first comprehensive legislation in American history to protect the lives of coal.
On August 25, 1921, the largest labor insurgency in American history and the largest civil uprising since the Civil War began in Logan County, West Virginia when 10,000 miners and.
West Virginia turns 150 today. Forged in the rejection of treason in defense of slavery, the state developed into a medieval fiefdom of the coal industry with much of the nation's worst industrial violence, endemic poverty, and resource exploitation. Even as coal withdraws from the...
On Monday, a West Virginia gas facility exploded, injuring two workers. Luckily, neither have life-threatening injuries. So this story will fade into oblivion even faster than a fatal coal mine.
Jay Rockefeller deserves major kudos for finally calling out the coal industry for lying to workers and the state that the EPA and environmentalists are costing coal jobs: This EPA.