Thunder on the mountain death at Massey and the dirty secrets behind big coal

On April 5, 2010, an explosion ripped through Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine, killing twenty-nine coal miners. This tragedy was the deadliest mine disaster in the United States in forty years--a disaster that never should have happened. These deaths were rooted in the cynical corporate cultur...

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Main Author: Galuszka, Peter A. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2014.
Edition:First paperback edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Death at Upper Big Branch
  • Renegade CEO
  • Up the Hollow
  • The roots of Massey Energy
  • Big Coal's ugly and bright future
  • Strip-mining on steroids
  • Dark as a dungeon
  • Coal country culture wars
  • Pulling the trigger on Don
  • Asia's appetite
  • Alpha's rotten apple.