Performance in 1980. Jean sings one of her newer mining songs based on the flooding of a coal mine in Hominy Falls, WV. A woman's reaction- and heartbreak. [...]

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A torrent as wide as a football field and 6 feet deep covered Cornette's property in Martin County, near the West Virginia line and about 175 miles east of [...]

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The April 5 blast at the southern West Virginia mine killed 29 men. State officials have already approved Richmond, Va.-based Massey's investigation plan, [...]

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Massey Vice President of Safety Elizabeth Chamberlin and five other mine managers have filed suit in court to stop West Virginia's Office of Miners Health, [...]

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She also spent a decade working for the US Department of Labor, served on the team investigating the Sago Mine Disaster for the state of West Virginia, [...]

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In this April 4 file photo, West Virginia State Police direct traffic at the entrance to Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Coal Mine in Montcoal, W.Va. [...]

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A popular governor who deftly handled a coal mine disaster last spring, the 63-year-old Manchin showed no signs of worry during a visit to bingo-playing [...]

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Today, for instance, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection sued the US Environmental Protection Agency for holding up mine permits, [...]

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Investigators from West Virginia's mine safety agency and an independent group assembled by Gov. Joe Manchin are also part of the teams underground, [...]

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New mine safety legislation is stalled in Congress amid industry pushback. The Washington Post article highlights the July death of a West Virginia worker [...]

6 Apr 2010 Four are missing in the nation's worst mine disaster since 1984. West Virginia governor launches mine disaster inquiry. April 13, 2010 [...]

11 Apr 2010 Sago investigator will look at West Virginia mine disaster. April 13, 2010. 9 bodies remain in West Virginia mine; recovery effort under way [...]

8 Apr 2010 The rescue team in the West Virginia coal mine disaster was called back Thursday morning – and hasn't yet reentered – because lingering [...]

(April 6) -- Twenty-five miners are dead and four others missing after an explosion rocked a remote West Virginia coal mine with a history of safety [...]

8 Apr 2010 The blast is the deadliest U.S. mine disaster since 1984. Eighteen bodies remained in the Montcoal, West Virginia, mine about 30 miles (48 [...]

10 Apr 2010 of those missing miners from the upper big branch mine disaster in west virginia . early today we learned all four men were found dead, [...]

Her 4000 residents suffered more than their share of mining tragedies. On March 4, 1881, the first mine explosion west of the Mississippi to claim lives, killed 38 men in just one of many serious disasters to strike Almy. [...]

The Upper Big Branch Mine disaster occurred on April 5, 2010 about 1,000 feet (300 m) underground at Massey Energy 's Upper Big Branch coal mine at Montcoal in Raleigh County, West [...]

Harpers Ferry Flood (September 30, 1870) (Time Trail) Floods Devastate Huntington (February 28, 1884) (Time Trail) First Lawsuit Over a Coal Mine Disaster (December 5, 1885) (Time [...]

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Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy, the company responsible for the worst mine disaster in 40 years which killed 29 miners at the Upper Big Branch mine last April and now subject to new violations announced on Thursday, stood next to Manchin during the “Massey Energy applauds Governor Manchin's decision to combat the EPA's stance on mining permits, which threatens West Virginia jobs and jeopardizes the livelihoods of working families throughout Central Appalachia. [...]

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Massey Energy to conduct independent investigation on Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster. Written by Editor on 29 September 2010. Massey Energy. September 29, 2010 (Coal Geology): Safety officials for the state of West Virginia have [...]

For some reason, US Citizens are more than willing to see their history being plowed over. In the case of Blair Mountain, not only will a historic site be destroyed, so will an entire mountain. Obviously, Blair Mountain is a mountain and its located in West Virginia. More importantly, Blair Mountain [...]

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Federal mining officials investigating the cause of the fatal explosion at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch mine said Friday that more than 1,400 rock samples taken from the mine contained large amounts of highly combustible coal dust, in violation of federal law. Coal dust - Coal - Business - Massey Energy - West Virginia [...]

May 3, 2006 A rescuer testifying at a public hearing into West Virginia's Sago mine disaster admits to mistakenly saying the trapped miners were alive, when in fact the sole [...]

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It's pretty clear the West Virginia mine disaster could have been averted had we the same sort of mining regulations as other "first world" nations. 29 lives lost. It's obvious that regulation would have saved the lives of the 11 BP oil [...]