Read that earlier. Murray is a f****** crook that ignores safety rules and kills miners. Not to mention polluting drinking water.
Wish there were a hell for like him and tRump people.
Coal Mine Company Denies Responsibility Despite Disaster Settlement
September 27, 2012
The Labor Department says a Thursday settlement in the 2007 Crandall Canyon mine disaster clearly leaves mine owner
Murray Energy with "acknowledged responsibility for the failures that led to the tragedy."
"These failures resulted in the needless deaths of nine" miners and rescuers, Solicitor of Labor Patricia Smith says.
But despite company signatures on the settlement document, Murray Energy tells NPR "this settlement is not an admission of any contribution to the August 2007 accidents."
The settlement [PDF] also reduces the Labor Department's initial assessment of $1.639 million in fines for flagrant, reckless and highly negligent violations of mine safety law to $949,351 in penalties.
That's a reduction of more than 40 percent, but it's still the third-largest fine ever levied against a coal company, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
The settlement includes Murray Energy's acceptance of four violations considered "contributory" to two fatal August 2007 mine collapses at Crandall Canyon.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/09/27/161920764/coal-mine-company-denies-responsibility-despite-disaster-settlement
From 2015:
The biggest private coal company in America just sued the Obama administration to stop the most important step for clean water in a decade.1
President Obama’s "Waters of the U.S." rule will protect the drinking-water sources for one in three Americans.
But Murray Energy—a giant coal mining company and major water polluter—is digging into their deep pockets to stop these clean water protections from going into effect.
This one company has repeatedly been cited by environmental officials for leaking coal-slurry waste into rivers like Captina Creek in Ohio.
The CEO of Murray Energy is attacking clean water in the court of public opinion as well, comparing the EPA to "the Gestapo" and blasting what he calls the "insane, regal Administration of King Obama. [!!]
Sources:
1. Murray Energy Corporation Sues Obama EPA for Unconstitutional Rule, WBOY, July 1, 2015
2. Murray Energy Turns Captina Creek Into Coal Sludge River in Ohio, Switchboard, October 3, 2010
3. Coal CEO Blasts 'Insane, Regal Administration Of King Obama' For Regulating Emissions, The Huffington Post, September 23, 2014
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