Richmond-based coal producer Massey Energy suffered a set back Thursday when a fire broke out at a preparation facility in Logan County, West Virginia.
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Mammoth case massive headache for Massey
Massey Energy lost a major appeal yesterday in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond. The court ruled to uphold a lower court ruling that requires the Richmond-based coal company to rehire 85 union miners who lost jobs after it bought the Mammoth Coal complex in West Virginia. Massey bought the operation from… Read more »
Massey CEO joins the Twitterati
Don Blankenship, chief executive of Massey Energy, has been tweeting away on Twitter since June 19. Massey is the nation’s fourth largest coal producer and the repeated target of protests over their mining practices in Appalachia. Last week, actress Darryl Hannah and a top NASA scientist were arrested in West Virginia at one such protest…. Read more »
Gee steps down from Massey board
Ohio State University president E. Gordon Gee has stepped down from his post on the Massey Energy board after nine years. Gee was re-elected at the company’s shareholder’s meeting held at the Jefferson Hotel on May 19. In a letter to CEO Don Blankenship, Gee said he wanted to focus on his role at the… Read more »