This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. Coal executive Bob Murray clashed Monday with federal energy regulators at a Lexington, Kentucky, energy forum over what Murray called a failure by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to sufficiently support the struggling coal industry.  “The word that I’ve been using […]

This article was originally published by the Ohio Valley ReSource. The nearly two-month blockade of a Kentucky railroad track is coming to an end as unpaid coal miners end their protest in order to take new jobs, start classes, or move away from their coal-dependent communities.  When coal company Blackjewel abruptly declared bankruptcy in July, […]

This article was originally published by the Ohio Valley ReSource. West Virginia employees of coal operator Blackjewel LLC have received their final paychecks more than two months after the company declared bankruptcy on July 1. In an agreement reached last week between the Department of Labor and the company, Blackjewel […]

The federal judge presiding over coal operator Blackjewel LLC’s bankruptcy has set a timeline in the “hot goods” dispute over millions of dollars worth of coal sitting in railcars in Kentucky and Virginia. Frank Volk, chief U.S. bankruptcy judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, gave the Labor Department, […]