World's Worst Company Has Worst Coal Accident in Two Decades

An unbelievable mining accident happened yesterday in West Virginia, killing 25, with 4 missing. The mine is owned by Performance Coal, a subsidiary of Massey Energy Co.-the “largest coal producer in Central Appalachia” which had a “record setting year for safety” in 2009. Also, you know: helmed by pretty much just evil, in the form of CEO Don Blankenship: “Union leaders say Mr. Blankenship, 56, is the main reason that less than a quarter of the state’s coal miners are now organized, down from about 95 percent just three decades ago. And environmentalists describe him as the biggest force behind a highly destructive form of mining called mountaintop removal that involves using explosives to blow off the tops of mountains to reach coal seams.”