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3 May 2010, 9:30 pm by admin
The following is a summary review of articles from all over the nation concerning environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week. [read post]
3 May 2010, 8:27 am by Geoff Hand, Attorney
A BP drilling rig explosion will lead to as much as 4 million gallons of crude oil leaking out into the Gulf of Mexico, threatening wide-scale coastal damage. 29 miners were killed this month in an explosion in a Massey Energy coal mine in West Virginia. [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 6:11 am by Joe Consumer
It's been reported that "The widows of two men killed [i.e., suffocated in a fire] in a 2006 fire at a coal mine run by Massey Energy Co.'s Aracoma unit sued the U.S. [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 6:11 am by Joe Consumer
It's been reported that "The widows of two men killed [i.e., suffocated in a fire] in a 2006 fire at a coal mine run by Massey Energy Co.'s Aracoma unit sued the U.S. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 3:06 pm by Lawrence Jackson
The nation's worst coal mine disaster in 40 years happened this month in West Virginia, where 29 men died in an explosion inside a mine owned by Massey Energy Co. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 6:17 am by Wolfe Law Firm
The Massey Energy Company, which owns the mine, was cited for 515 violations of safety in 2009 and another 124 already in 2010 prior to the explosion. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 7:17 am by Steve Hall
” The court decided that Chief Justice Brent Benjamin, of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, was required to recuse himself from a case involving Massey Energy, one of the country’s biggest coal companies, after Massey’s chief executive spent $3 million to help get Justice Benjamin elected. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 4:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
” The court decided that Chief Justice Brent Benjamin, of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, was required to recuse himself from a case involving Massey Energy, one of the country’s biggest coal companies, after Massey’s chief executive spent $3 million to help get Justice Benjamin elected. [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 5:39 am by Regan Zambri & Long
" However, "a comparison between Massey's safety practices and those of other operators in the coal industry shows sharp differences, helping to explain why Massey mines led the list of those warned by federal regulators that they could face greater scrutiny because of their many violations. [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 10:46 am by John Demas
Earlier this month, a deadly explosion at a West Virginia coal mine killed twenty-nine workers. [read post]
The commercial and C-suite pressures to cut corners and failures to create a safety culture occur not just at companies out of the public eye (few outside the coal industry had hear of Massey until the Big Branch accident). [read post]
18 Apr 2010, 8:59 am by Tom Goldstein
Supreme Court retirements inevitably produce much more coverage of process than substance. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 10:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
When a corporate scofflaw operates coal mines without meaningful government supervision, regulatory oversight or a unionized workforce, the tragic result is shattered families in the coal fields of West Virginia. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 8:37 am by laborprof lpb
As Alan Hyde points out in the comments to Paul's post on the Massey Coal Mine disaster, that particular story does not talk about the fact that the mine is non-union. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 12:01 pm by laborprof lpb
Thanks to Beth Thornburg (SMU) on the Civil Procedure Listserv for the heads up on this revealing story from NPR on the worst coal mine disaster in decades: An NPR News Investigation shows that the Upper Big Branch mine in... [read post]