Head of Massey Energy live at the National Press Club
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A huge pile of coal at a West Virginia coal mine. The U.S. supply of coal is plentiful, and relatively cheap compared to other sources of energy.
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Don Blankenship, chairman and CEO of Massey Energy Company, speaks lives at the National Press Club about coal mining. Massey Energy Company is the fourth largest coal company in the US. An explosion at the company's Montcoal, West Virginia mine in April killed 29 miners, making it the deadliest coal mine explosion in the US in forty years.
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