Arch Of West Virginia, Inc.

• Logan County Mine Wins Environmental Award

A West Virginia coal mine has been recognized by the U.S. Department of the Interior for repairing environmental damage done by previous extraction. Arch of West Virginia, a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Arch Coal, Inc., won the Office of Surface Mining's Director's Award for excellence in reclamation, the company said Monday.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• September 30, 2004

• Two W.Va. Mines Win Environmental Excellence Awards

A West Virginia coal mine has been recognized by the U.S. Department of the Interior for repairing environmental damage done by previous extraction. Arch of West Virginia, a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Arch Coal, Inc., won the Office of Surface Mining's Director's Award for excellence in reclamation, the company said Monday.

• Charleston Gazette
• September 28, 2004

• Carbon Fuel Company, a West Virginia Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Usx Corporation, a Delaware Corporation; U. S. Steel Mining Co., Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Defendants-Appellees, v. Arch Mineral Corporation; Arch Minerals of Kentucky; Consolidation Coal Company; Old Ben Coal Company, Third Party Defendants. Carbon Fuel Company, a West Virginia Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Usx Corporation, a Delaware Corporation; U. S. Steel Mining Co., Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Defendants-Appellants, v. Arch Mineral Corporation; Consolidation Coal Company; Old Ben Coal Company, Third Party Defendants-Appellees, and Arch Minerals of Kentucky, Third Party Defendant. Carbon Fuel Company, a West Virginia Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Usx Corporation, a Delaware Corporation; U. S. Steel Mining Co., Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Defendants-Appellees, v. Arch Mineral Corporation; Old Ben Coal Company, Third Party Defendants-Appellants, and Arch Minerals of Kentucky; Consolidation Coal Company, Third ..., 100 F.3d 1124 (4th Cir. 1996)

Appeals from the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Charleston. Charles H. Haden II, Chief District Judge. (C...

• Federal Circuits

• Ex-Mine Safety Chief Joins Arch Coal

ST. LOUIS - Three months after his state saw one of the worst mining disasters in recent memory, the former chief of West Virginia's mine safety office is taking a job with Arch Coal Inc., the nation's No. 2 coal company said Friday. Doug Conaway announced Feb. 7 he was stepping down after five years as director of the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training. Conaway's resignation spurred Gov. Joe Manchin to seek legislation that increased the qualifications for West Virginia's next mine safety director.

• Charleston Gazette
• March 20, 2006

• St. Louis-Based Arch Coal Agrees to Pay $4 Million, Make Changes

St. Louis-based Arch Coal Inc. will pay a $4 million penalty and modify mining operations in three states to settle a joint federal- state lawsuit alleging Clean Water Act violations, the federal government announced today. Allegedly, excess amounts of iron, manganese and other chemicals leaked from Arch facilities into streams in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky from 2003 to 2010. The Department of Justice estimates modifications Arch Coal has agreed to make will prevent about 2 million pounds of pollution annually.

• Missouri Lawyers Media
• March 08, 2011

• Tomblin Administration: ; Environment Board Shake-Up; Eqb Members with Expired Terms, Armbrecht and Van Gundy, Replaced

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has replaced two members of a state appeals board that is in the middle of a major case that focuses on implementation of new federal water-quality guidance for mountaintop removal mining permits. Late last week, Tomblin named two new members for the West Virginia Environmental Quality Board, replacing board members Ted Armbrecht and James Van Gundy as the board considered the permit for Arch Coal Inc.'s New Hill West Mine in Monongalia County.

• Charleston Gazette
• November 23, 2011

• Clean Water Act Section 404(c) Final Determination and Consultation:

...Spruce No. 1 Surface Mine in Logan County, West Virginia. The transmission of the Recommended Dete... of the Army, the State of West Virginia, Arch. Coal, Inc. (the permittee), and the landowners of...

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• Notices
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Arch Coal to Buy International Coal Group for $3.4 Billion

St. Louis-based Arch Coal Inc. announced it will buy Scott Depot- based International Coal Group for $3.4 billion. Steven Leer, Arch's chairman and chief executive officer, said on Monday that the completion of International Coal's Tygart No. 1 mine in Taylor County will help increase Arch's metallurgical coal production 85 percent by 2015.

... and southern Powder River Basin and the western bituminous region.". He called the merger "a hand-... 4,700 employees, including 700 in West Virginia. The company operates 23 active mines located in e...

• Charleston Daily Mail
• May 03, 2011

• Arch of West Virginia, 1089 (1991)

Arch of West Virginia, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Arch Minerals...

• National Labor Relations Board

• Arch Coal to Pay $4 Million in Fines

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Arch Coal Inc. will pay $4 million in fines and change some of its mining practices under a settlement announced Tuesday in a federal lawsuit over alleged Clean Water Act violations in West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky. Under the deal St. Louis-based Arch will pay half of the penalty to the federal government. More than $1.8 million will go to West Virginia, where most of the alleged violations occurred, while Kentucky will get $160,000. The agreement does not list a penalty payment for Virginia

• Charleston Daily Mail
• March 02, 2011