When Massey's Spartan Mining bought the West Virginia coal mine where they once worked but refused to rehire more than 200 miners over the age of 40, they filed suit -- and won. More...

Massey Energy has begun mountaintop removal mining operations atop Coal River Mountain, where environmental advocates have been promoting alternative plans for utility-scale wind power. More...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold public hearings this week in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania on the particularly destructive form of strip mining. The hearings come as the Obama administration and others are taking a hard look at the practice. More...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration recently sent warning letters to 10 mine operators with serious recurrent safety and health violations. Most of the operations are coal mines in West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky. More...

A by-the-numbers look at the holiday, from its roots in a bloody strike to the state of labor today. More...

The phone company touts its environmental record and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So what's it doing sponsoring an event organized by polluting interests? More...

On Saturday, a group of 20 men and women -- some of them wearing Massey Energy-issued shirts -- crashed a West Virginia music festival against mountaintop mining removal and threatened attendees. The disturbing incident was captured on video. More...

An appeals court rules that Massey Energy -- the nation's fourth-largest mining company and a major mountaintop removal operator -- must give jobs back to 85 mine workers it fired because of their union membership and pro-union sentiments. More...

A protest yesterday at a Massey Energy mountaintop removal mine in West Virginia drew big names including NASA climate scientist James Hansen and actress Darryl Hannah as well as scores of counter-protesters, and it reportedly turned violent at moments. On Thursday, the Senate will hold a hearing on the impact of the destructive mining practice -- but will elected leaders take action to stop it? More...

Foes of mountaintop removal mining are gathering in North Carolina this weekend for a benefit concert featuring coalfields native Kathy Mattea, with the aim of building a new elementary school for an Appalachian community endangered by destructive mining practices. More...

In a precedent-setting case involving Appalachian mountaintop removal mining giant Massey Energy, a closely divided high court says elected judges must step aside from cases involving big campaign contributors. More...

In a victory for environmentalists working to halt the destruction of Appalachia, Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee resigned his position with Massey Energy of Virginia. He was the target of a letter-writing campaign that charged the association undermined his credibility as a clean-energy advocate. More...

The debate over mountaintop removal mining is heating up: Federal lawmakers introduced a bill to end the practice, a Jesuit school has divested holdings in a major mountaintop removal company, and Kentucky native Ashley Judd is speaking out. More...

Activists protest a coal company's potentially catastrophic plans to start blasting operations near a dam holding back 7 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge. They ask the company to consider building a wind farm instead. More...