On December 19, 1907, the Darr Mine near Smithton, Pennsylvania, caught fire and exploded. 239 people died, many of them children. This was the largest workplace disaster in Pennsylvania history..
I am as anti-coal as anyone else. It's a terrible energy source if you care about the future of the planet. However, there's no question that there's a good reason.
On September 6, 1869, the Avondale Colliery mine near Plymouth, Pennsylvania caught on fire, killing 110 workers. This disaster, one of the first major coal disasters in the United States,.
So you might think that a West Virginia coal miner turned strident anti-coal activist would support the one candidate who might do something about climate change and who would follow.
The Environmental Protection Agency has completely failed to regulate coal ash effectively. Focusing on a case in Bokoshe, Oklahoma and a coal company literally named Making Money Having Fun, this.
As I am desperately trying to write the draft of my book on strikes, one of the things I've had to sacrifice is writing book reviews here. They take too.
Does labor law protect cussing at your bosses? It depends. And that's the subject of this story about how Murray Energy, a horrible coal mining company, has fired a couple.
In the aftermath of Don Blankenship getting off almost scot free after murdering 29 of his workers at the Big Branch mine in 2010, the Huntington Herald-Dispatch calls for making.
