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Ken Ward, Jr.

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Name: Ken Ward, Jr.

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Office of Surface Mining

OSM refuses to release details on slurry dam tests

Coalfield citizens this morning unsuccessfully sought the public release of more details of long-hidden federal testing that found indications of potentially serious safety problems at coal slurry dams across West Virginia.The Charleston GazetteAdver ... [Published Charleston Gazette - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Coal, Density, Joe Stanley, Office of Surface Mining, Ken Ward, Jr.

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

“How come there’s no manhunt for the owner of the Texas factory…?”

Mike Elk, labor reporter and staff writer for In These Times Magazine, in the Washington Post: On Friday, as cable news networks sought desperately to fill airtime while waiting for the latest news in the aftermath of the Boston bombings, a friend ... [Published Balloon Juice - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: West (Texas, United States), Walter Cronkite, Boston (Massachusetts, United States), Detonation

First reported Mar 26 2013 - Updated Mar 26 2013 - 1 reports

Board delays key methane rule decision

A state board has again put off making a major decision that's required before West Virginia regulators can begin enforcing tougher methane monitoring requirements contained in Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's mine safety bill.The Charleston GazetteAdvertiserCHARLESTON, ... [Published Charleston Gazette - Mar 26 2013]

Entities: Methane, Chris Hamilton, Mining

First reported Mar 25 2013 - Updated Mar 26 2013 - 1 reports

US Environmental Protection Agency

EPA to reject W.Va. impaired streams list

Federal regulators plan as early as this afternoon to announce that they've rejected West Virginia's latest list of contaminated streams because state officials left off waterways that should have been included.The Charleston GazetteAdvertiserCHARLESTON, ... [Published Charleston Gazette - Mar 25 2013]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, David Sternberg, Ken Ward, Jr.

First reported Mar 15 2013 - Updated Mar 16 2013 - 1 reports

West Virginia University

Study finds problems with gas-drilling pits

A legislatively mandated study by West Virginia University has found problems with the way oil and gas companies build drilling waste pits and with how state regulators inspect those impoundments.The Charleston GazetteAdvertiserCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A ... [Published Charleston Gazette - Mar 15 2013]

Entities: West Virginia University, Ken Ward, Jr., Seepage, Marcellus Shale

First reported Mar 14 2013 - Updated Mar 15 2013 - 1 reports

United Mine Workers

Patriot Coal seeks to break contract with UMWA

Patriot Coal Corp. on Thursday asked a U.S. bankruptcy judge to throw out the terms of the company's existing contract with the United Mine Workers union and modify the health-care plan covering thousands of retired miners.The Charleston GazetteAdver ... [Published Charleston Gazette - Mar 14 2013]

Entities: Patriot Coal Corporation, Cecil Roberts, United Mine Workers

First reported Mar 15 2013 - Updated Mar 15 2013 - 1 reports

More mine rescue reforms needed, report says

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Federal regulators should revisit and potentially strengthen their requirements for coal operators to provide emergency breathing devices for miners to use in escapes from underground mine fires or explosions, a new National Academy ... [Published Charleston Gazette - Mar 15 2013]

Entities: emergency, Upper Big Branch Mine, Mineral, Disaster

First reported Mar 14 2013 - Updated Mar 14 2013 - 1 reports

Miner killed at Boone coal operation

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A miner was killed Wednesday evening at a Boone County coal operation, the fifth death in West Virginia's coal industry in as many weeks.Details were sketchy, but a spokeswoman for the state Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training ... [Published Sunday Gazette-Mail - Mar 14 2013]

Entities: Peerless, Coal, Ken Ward, Jr., Mine Safety and Health Administration

First reported Mar 12 2013 - Updated Mar 12 2013 - 1 reports

CONSOL mine near Pennsylvania line evacuated

A major CONSOL Energy operation in northern West Virginia has been evacuated, and state mine safety officials are investigating reports of black smoke coming from one of the mine's airshafts.The Charleston GazetteAdvertiserCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A major ... [Published Sunday Gazette-Mail - Mar 12 2013]

Entities: Mike Caputo, CONSOL Energy Inc, Ken Ward, Jr., United Mine Workers

First reported Mar 10 2013 - Updated Mar 10 2013 - 1 reports

W.Va. mine training law unenforced

Safety agency not pushing tougher 'pattern of conduct' provisionThe Charleston GazetteAdvertiserCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Tomblin administration is not moving forward with language in West Virginia's new mine safety bill that could require tougher safety ... [Published Sunday Gazette-Mail - Mar 10 2013]

Entities: Earl Ray Tomblin, Eugenics, Ken Ward, Jr., Certification, Coal

First reported Mar 07 2013 - Updated Mar 08 2013 - 1 reports

Coal lobby wary, but hopeful of industry's future

West Virginia's coal industry has a bright future if it can continue to fight off efforts by the federal government to more closely regulate mining practices and power plant emissions, the chairman of the West Virginia Coal Association said today.The ... [Published Sunday Gazette-Mail - Mar 07 2013]

Entities: Coal, Mining, Ken Ward, Jr., Power Plant, Emission

First reported Dec 14 2012 - Updated Dec 15 2012 - 2 reports

EPA imposes lower soot emissions limit

The Obama administration on Friday finalized tougher new limits on fine particle air pollution, in its first significant regulatory action since winning re-election last month.The Charleston GazetteAdvertiserCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Obama administration ... [Published Sunday Gazette-Mail - Dec 14 2012]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, Soot, Emission, Air Pollution, Marion Marshall

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OSM refuses to release details on slurry dam tests [Published Charleston Gazette - Apr 25 2013]
“How come there’s no manhunt for the owner of t... [Published Balloon Juice - Apr 25 2013]
An Explosion the Media Ignores: The Texas Ferti... [Published Common Dreams - Apr 23 2013]
Appeals court backs EPA veto of Spruce Mine [Published Charleston Gazette - Apr 23 2013]
Court questions mining permits [Published Charleston Gazette - Apr 23 2013]
Coal-backed research takes on mining health stu... [Published Charleston Gazette - Apr 21 2013]
UBB probe may target former Massey officials, f... [Published Charleston Gazette - Apr 19 2013]
More strip-mine dust controls needed, researche... [Published Charleston Gazette - Apr 18 2013]
EPA defends water quality guidance in appeal [Published Charleston Gazette - Apr 17 2013]
UBB foreman reaches deal with state [Published Charleston Gazette - Apr 16 2013]
Researchers hear results of industry-backed min... [Published Charleston Gazette - Apr 16 2013]
Study finds greater risk to coal plants [Published Charleston Gazette - Apr 10 2013]
MSHA has room to improve, audit says [Published Charleston Gazette - Apr 03 2013]
Sales of coal power plants raise concerns [Published Charleston Gazette - Mar 30 2013]
Board delays key methane rule decision [Published Charleston Gazette - Mar 26 2013]
EPA revises W.Va.'s list of polluted streams [Published Charleston Gazette - Mar 25 2013]
EPA to reject W.Va. impaired streams list [Published Charleston Gazette - Mar 25 2013]
Fifth West Virginia miner killed in as many weeks [Published World Socialist Web Site - Mar 19 2013]
WVU: Marcellus drill-site pits have problems [Published Charleston Gazette - Mar 16 2013]
Study finds problems with gas-drilling pits [Published Charleston Gazette - Mar 15 2013]
More mine rescue reforms needed, report says [Published Charleston Gazette - Mar 15 2013]
Patriot Coal seeks to break contract with UMWA [Published Charleston Gazette - Mar 14 2013]

Blogs

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“How come there’s no manhunt for the owner of t... [Published Balloon Juice - Apr 25 2013] Mike Elk, labor reporter and staff writer for In These Times Magazine, in the Washington Post: On Friday, as cable news networks sought desperately to fill airtime while waiting for the latest news in the aftermath of the Boston bombings, a friend ...
Occupational Health News Roundup [The Pump Handle] [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - Jan 24 2013] On April 5, 2010, an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia killed 29 miners. Four different investigative bodies reached the same conclusion about the causes of the blast: that mine owner Massey Energy disregarded fundamental ...
Occupational Health News Roundup [The Pump Handle] [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - Dec 07 2012] A fire last month at the Tazreen Fashions Ltd. factory in Ashulia, Bangladesh killed 112 workers and injured many more. Now it’s being reported that the fire department had refused to renew the factory’s certification, and that only five of factory’s ...
Worker remain missing four days after failure o... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - Dec 04 2012] The Charleston (WV) Gazette’s Ken Ward Jr. continues to provide updates on efforts to locate a worker caught on Friday, Nov 30 in the collapse of a massive coal slurry embankment failure in Harrison County, WV. The worker was operating a bulldozer ...
Secrecy Shuts Down Briefing on 2008 Chem Accident [Published Secrecy News - Mar 05 2009] Government safety investigators canceled a public briefing about an August 28, 2008 explosion that killed two persons at a chemical plant in Institute, West Virginia after operators of the plant said that public discussion of the accident could jeopardize ...