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U.S. Department of Labor
To the Mining Community:
Mine Safety and Health Administration 1100 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, Virginia 22209-3939
Thirty seven miners died in work-related accidents at the nation's mines in 2011. There were 21 coal mining and 16 metal/nonmetal mining fatalities last year, compared with 48 and 23, respectively, in 2010, making 2011 the year with the second-lowest number of mining deaths since statistics were first recorded in 1910.
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Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Sen. Joe Manchin will serve as keynote speakers on Thursday and Friday respectively. Federal Miner Health and Safety Administration Director Joe Main will also address the event on Thursday. A full schedule of events is attached to this release.
The Mountaineer Guardian Awards for excellence in safety will be presented at lunch on Thursday and the Reclamation Awards will be announced at lunch on Friday.
The event has rapidly grown to become one of the major events on the annual events schedule in West Virginia. More than 800 people have pre-registered this year.
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HOUSTON & ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP - News) today announced plans to invest approximately $140 million to further expand its coal handling facilities along the Gulf Coast. Concurrently, Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI - News) has signed a long-term throughput agreement with KMP that will help support the expansion of these export facilities. Also, Arch and KMP are in final discussions to include, in the throughput agreement, port space for coal shipments at KMP-owned facilities on the East Coast.
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McKinley joins call to develop domestic energy sources
DALLAS & WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE - News), a global technology and specialty materials company, applauds Representative Pete Olson (R-Texas) for introducing House Bill 3773 yesterday on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. H.R. 3773 would amend section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act to allow fuel blenders to use Domestic Alternative Fuel to satisfy their obligations under the federal Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).
Specifically, Rep. Olson’s bill, titled the Domestic Alternative Fuels Act of 2012, would allow ethanol produced from domestic hydrocarbons other than petroleum to satisfy the RFS requirement to use conventional biofuel (corn-based ethanol) to reduce the quantity of petroleum used in transportation fuel.
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) — FirstEnergy Corp. said Thursday that new environmental regulations led to a decision to shut down six older, coal-fired power plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland, affecting more than 500 employees.
The plants, which are in Cleveland, Ashtabula, Oregon and Eastlake in Ohio, Adrian, Pa. and Williamsport, Md., will be retired by Sept. 1. They have generated about 10 percent of the electricity produced by FirstEnergy over the last three years, the company said.
In a statement James Lash, head of the company's generation unit, indicated that a review of the company's coal-fired plants determined it would not be cost-effective to get the older ones into compliance with environmental regulations the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced in December
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