Comment: Mining regulations did not work here because greed was in the way, killed 29 people!
BY KRIS MAHER
Alpha Natural Resources Inc. has settled all remaining wrongful-death lawsuits with the families of coal miners killed in a 2010 explosion that was the worst U.S. mining accident in four decades.
Alpha inherited the civil suits when it acquired Massey Energy for $7.1 billion last June, more than a year after an explosion at Massey's Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia killed 29 miners.
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