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    The Heartbreaking Upper Big Branch Mine Settlement

    DECEMBER 8, 2011 8:33AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: corporate murder, corporations are people too, regulatory capture, mike elk, senator joe manchin, deregulation, government regulation, environmental regulation, all the devils are here, bethany mclean, inc., mccoy coal group, npr, howard berkes, jr., ken ward, richard trumpka, coal tattoo, charleston gazette, alpha national resources, kevin stricklin, increasingly clean coal, tony oppegard, msha, mine safety and health administration, gary wayne quarles. booth goodwin, gary quarles, don blankenship, massey energy, rex mullins, clay mullins, upper big branch mine settlement, upper big branch mine disaster, coal mining disasters, coal mining, coal, environment, business

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    Hey Mitt, Corporations AREN’T People Too

    SEPTEMBER 15, 2011 8:35AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: politics, law, corporate personhood, republican primary race, mitt romney, conservative thought, corporations are people too, idiotic statements, legal fictions, legal personhood, 14th amendment issues, supreme court chief justice john g. roberts, citizen’s united, adam smith, massey energy, don blankenship, nra, abc news

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