Massey Energy CEO News

Former Massey Energy CEO Donald Blankenship is headed to prison even as he appeals his conviction for conspiring to flout mine-safety laws in connection with the worst U.S. coal industry disaster in almost 40 years. The federal appeals court in …

To beat charges that he recklessly ignored safety standards before his coal mine blew up, killing 29 men in the industry’s worst disaster in the U.S. in decades, coal executive Don Blankenship will have to overcome reams of evidence painting …