Former coal baron Donald Blankenship was sentenced to a year in prison for evading mine-safety rules in one of the...
Upper Big Branch mine News
Six years after 29 miners were killed in a West Virginia coal dust explosion, the man who ran the mining...
A 48-foot black granite monument with life-size silhouettes of 29 fallen miners defines this small Appalachian town, just downhill from...
To hear Donald L. Blankenship tell it, the U.S. coal industry has been undone by inept regulators, evil unions, the...
Former Massey Energy Chief Donald Blankenship won’t take the witness stand to explain what happened when a company mine exploded...
Massey Energy executives used an advanced warning system at the company’s Upper Big Branch mine to alert workers as soon...
Before death came to Upper Big Branch Mine, Donald L. Blankenship managed his patch of Appalachia like King Coal incarnate....
A federal judge has agreed to delay the criminal trial of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship. U.S. District Judge...
Alpha Natural Resources must pay the legal expenses of Donald Blankenship, the former chief executive officer of Massey Energy, which...
Former Massey Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Donald Blankenship was given a three-month reprieve to prepare for a criminal trial...