File under: climate criminality, or just criminality.
From Ken Ward at West Virginia Gazette (my summary):
Subsidiary of Patriot Coal (St Louis), itself a spawn of Peabody Coal, cited for negligence and alleged destruction of evidence relating to accidents, one of which caused the deaths of two coal miners in West Virginia.
The Charleston Gazette | MSHA cites Patriot subsidiary in Brody mine deaths
Read full report here. Chronicle of two deaths foretold? Miners' knowledge of safety conditions apparently over-ridden by management. Chilling to read the full report. Salute to these men, sacrificed by an industry that values profit over labor and nature:
