Massey

All eyes on Massey Energy

It has not been a good week for Richmond-based Massey Energy, a company that mines coal in Virginia and West Virginia and ships coal on trains through Richmond. The company also has local legal representation. And Massey sells coal to Dominion Virginia Power for producing electricity, although the mine where an explosion this week killed 25 miners and left four missing produced a different kind of coal used in plants to smelt metals.

Massey faces suit

Richmond-based Massey Energy may soon be in court for allegedly violating conditions of the Clean Water Act and exceeding pollution limits allowed by its mining permits. On Monday the Sierra Club and several West Virginia groups filed a 60 day notice of intent to sue the coal company for civil penalties. From West Virginia Metro… Read more »