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,.
This piece on the threat of a large copper mine to Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is a sign a failure in the larger wilderness debates, which is not.
On June 8, 1917, the Speculator Mine in Granite Mountain, near Butte, Montana, caught on fire. 168 miners died in the largest death toll in American history for a hard-rock.
Above: Children mining gold in Mali, more beneficiaries of free trade Once again, industry must be held legally accountable for their supply chains. This week, the Organization for Economic Cooperation.
American justice: Be a wealthy white man who kills 29 workers and you get a year in prison. Be black and smoke a joint, get many years in prison, assuming.
The Guardian has been running an interesting set of stories on world cities. This one highlights Potosí, the Bolivian silver city I have been utterly fascinated by ever since visiting.
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.
Once again, investigators are exposing the horrors of the global supply chain that corporations rely on for their raw materials and much of their production. This time it is the.
