"West Virginia Coal Country Sees New Era as Donald Blankenship Is Indicted", 30 Nov 2014 

...That history ended in November, with the indictment of Donald L. Blankenship, the chief executive whose company [Massey Energy] owned the Upper Big Branch mine near here, where an explosion of methane gas in 2010 spread like a fireball through more than two miles of tunnels, feeding on illegally high levels of coal dust. 

Legal experts call the case against Mr. Blankenship, a figure both feared and renowned for his power in West Virginia, a turning point after a century in which the power of coal barons over politicians, courts and the economy protected them...