Justice in coal country.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - D. Booth Goodwin II - Brief article

God bless D. Booth Goodwin II. He's the U.S. attorney who, at long last, really stuck it to a coal company. After years of token penalties that have been far too small to motivate the companies to make their mines safe, the $209 million he got from Alpha Coal--the successor to Massey Energy, the company responsible for the explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine two years ago--is forty times the amount of the highest...