Owners of West Virginia's Upper Big Branch coal mine have settled wrongful death lawsuits filed by the families of 29 men who died in an April 2010 explosion, an attorney representing two of the miners' estates said Wednesday.
The operators of West Virginia's Upper Big Branch coal mine dodged federal safety rules and hid violations before the April 2010 explosion that killed 29 men, a scathing report on the disaster concluded Tuesday.
A "perfect storm was brewing" in West Virginia's Upper Big Branch coal mine in the weeks and days before a fireball tore through it on April 5, 2010, killing 29 miners and injuring one severely, according to a just-released report by the Governor's Independent Investigation Panel.
The owners of a West Virginia mine where 29 people perished in an explosion last year have agreed to permanently seal it, federal regulators said.
The coal mining industry is controversial to say the least.
Acting West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin will join the families of the 29 men who perished in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine a year ago Tuesday.
President Obama delivers the eulogy at a memorial for the 29 miners that were killed in an explosion in West Virginia.
The governor of West Virginia unveiled a new, specially equipped truck Tuesday designed to help rescue trapper miners -- part of that state's response to last year's Upper Big Branch Mine explosion, which resulted in 29 deaths.
Massey Energy, owner of the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia that was the site of a tragic explosion last April, was acquired by rival Alpha Natural Resources in a $7.1 billion deal, the companies announced Saturday.
Massey Energy chairman and CEO Don Blankenship will get $12 million in cash payments when he retires from the controversial coal giant at the end of the year, the company disclosed Tuesday.
The rescue of 33 trapped men in Chile brings home vividly the hazards of mining. How do we defend this very blue-collar occupation, which claimed the life of my grandfather, some of his friends and almost killed me, when I was actually pinned between a rock and a hard place?
The West Virginia coal mine where 29 miners died in an explosion in April had a sudden and large inundation of methane gas the day of the accident, the mine owner said Thursday.
A state investigation into the West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 miners in April is laboriously slow, the head investigator said Wednesday.
It's a bold and rare move for a company to sue its regulator, but no one has ever accused the Massey Energy Company of being timid.
A borehole drilling problem has halted efforts to inspect the West Virginia coal mine where 29 people died in an April explosion, the company that owns the mine said Thursday.
Air inside the West Virginia coal mine where 29 men died in April is safe enough for an investigation into the disaster to begin, company officials and regulators said Wednesday.
"Hi Deb and Sara. I'm still OK at 2:40 pm. I don't know what is going on here and outside. We don't hear any attempts at drilling or rescue. The section is full of smoke and fumes so we can't escape. We are all still alive at this time."
A top federal mine safety official said Tuesday that existing laws and regulations have not been properly enforced but pledged that his agency will now use all its powers after the West Virginia mine disaster that killed 29 people.
The fatal explosions at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia and the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the Louisiana coast drive home important truths about our country's energy supplies.
The U.S. Coast Guard says the oil leak caused by a rig explosion could become significant. WDSU reports.
West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin says crews are recovering the bodies of the four missing miners.
Coal-producing giant Massey Energy defended its safety record Monday after the worst U.S. mine disaster in decades and rebuffed calls for its CEO to step down.
President Obama on Thursday ordered a review of mines with poor safety records and criticized the owner of a West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 29 people last week.
President Obama orders a review of mines with poor safety records after last week's fatal mine explosion.
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin asked his state's miners to put down their tools on Friday and use the day to re-evaluate safety procedures rather than to produce coal.
Protesters wearing surgical masks on Wednesday interrupted a congressional hearing on the coal industry.
West Virginia's governor on Tuesday named a former head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration to lead a state investigation into last week's coal mine explosion that left 29 miners dead.
CNN's Ines Ferre reports on how a West Virginia community is coping after the lost of 29 coal miners.
Recovery crews worked in a West Virginia coal mine Monday, hoping to bring out by late afternoon the last nine bodies remaining there out of the 29 miners who died in an explosion a week ago, officials said.
Efforts were under way Sunday to reventilate a sprawling West Virginia coal mine so crews can recover the bodies of 22 miners who died in an explosion Monday, authorities said. Seven bodies were removed soon after the blast.
No matter the years she has been away and the miles that separate her, Crystal Roles still calls Naoma, West Virginia, home.
Federal authorities were determined late Thursday to resume the search in a West Virginia coal mine where four miners may be trapped after a deadly explosion earlier in the week.
A West Virginia congressman talks to CNN's John King about warning signs and accountability leading up to the mine blast.
As this week's explosion in a West Virginia mine proved, coal mining is still a very dangerous job. The mining accident in Upper Big Branch Mine killed 25, making it the worst coal mining disaster in 25 years.
West Virginia's governor joins CNN's Larry King to give an update on rescue efforts for four missing miners.
They filed along a single sidewalk of this tiny corner of coal country, mourning the community's losses while trying to keep a brave front of hope.
Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy, has a lot of explaining to do this week. His company owns the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, W.Va., site of the most fatal mining disaster in decades. Even though the cause of Monday's explosion, which claimed 25 lives, has yet to be determined, questions are already flying about the coal company's safety standards.
Shares of Massey Energy plunged over 10% Tuesday, one day after an explosion at one of the company's coal mines in West Virginia killed at least 25 workers and left 4 missing.
One of the men killed in Monday's coal mine explosion in West Virginia knew of the danger but didn't let it bother him, his family said Tuesday.
Jeanie Sanger, whose brother was killed in the West Virginia mine disaster Monday, shares her feelings and memories.
Twelve miners died Monday and more than a dozen were unaccounted for after an explosion erupted inside an underground mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia, the mine's parent company said.
First responders arrive at the scene of a massive mine explosion in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
An explosion at the Massey Energy Co. mine in Montcoal, West Virginia, killed at least 25 miners. The cause of the explosion had not been determined as rescuers worked Tuesday to bore ventilation holes into the Upper Big Branch Mine. This is a chronological list of notable coal mine accidents in the United States over the last century. The list is not all-inclusive. * December 6, 1907 -- Worst coal mine disaster in U.S. history: 362 miners are killed in an explosion at the Monongah Nos. 6 and 8 Coal Mines in Monongah, West Virginia.
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