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position Former Chairman and CEO

industry Coal

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Donald Leon "Don" Blankenship (born March 14, 1950) is the Chairman and CEO of Massey Energy Co., the sixth largest coal company (by 2008 production) in the...

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Don Blankenship

company Massey Energy

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Don Blankenship

PolluterWatch Videos

Rising Tide's Day of Action Against Extraction [VIDEO] 05/25/2011 - 15:01	Coal Ash: Blatantly and Egregiously Hazardous 11/18/2010 - 22:57
The Yes Men Fix the U.S. Chamber of Commerce 09/01/2010 - 18:55	Killing the Climate, from API to Tom Donohue 01/11/2010 - 20:27

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Massey Energy to Blame for Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster 12/07/2011 - 21:36	Rising Tide's Day of Action Against Extraction [VIDEO] 05/25/2011 - 15:01	Coal Lobby Loves Mercury 03/17/2011 - 21:21 Crossposted from Greenpeace USA.
EPA Dramatically Inflates Economic Benefits of Recycling Coal Ash 01/03/2011 - 22:03	The State of the Nation [as Arranged by Polluters, Inc.] 12/09/2010 - 18:46	Don Blankenship Retires!! 12/07/2010 - 18:10 The infamous Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy Company, has announced he will retire at the end of December. Given the storms Blankenship had weathered in the past, it came as somewhat of a surprise that the climate change denying, union busting, federal judge bribing, safety law violating, mountain top destroyer is finally calling it quits.