Motions Heard In Massey Case

• {West Virginia}...Friday, judges in Wheeling heard motions in the coal slurry pollution case brought against Massey Energy and Rawl Sales & Processing. Some 700 people accuse Rawl of poisoning their wells by pumping slurry underground. Massey says judges hearing the case should exclude from the trial any references to some of its past problems, including a mine explosion that killed 29 men last year. Massey's lawyers also want to disallow mention of litigation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a Kentucky slurry dam that failed in 2000.