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.
Plumer has a good summary of one of the nation's most underreported energy/environmental problems--coal ash storage. Storing this nasty stuff safely is a real problem. Environmentalists have pushed for new.
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.
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.
In yesterday's post on the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, Joe B in comments pointed us out to the official MSHA statistics on mine deaths between 1900 and.
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 November 13, 1909, at the Cherry Mine in Cherry, Illinois, a coal car filled with hay for the mules who worked underground rolled down a track. Earlier that week,.
Great news. I recently linked to the Center on Public Integrity's excellent series on how coal miners are denied black lung benefits by Johns Hopkins doctors who always rule in.
