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n e w s c o n t i n u e d 10 www.coalage.com November 2015 notices on October 26. The mine and preparation plant are both included, and no plans were disclosed for miner transfers. "We're stating our intent to shut down within 60 days," Mark McCormick, United's general counsel and vice president, told The I nter-Mountain. "We reserve the right to rescind that, but that will b e dependent on market conditions and performance of the mine." Carter Roag Coal, located in Mill Creek, Randolph County — one of the hardest-hit areas amid the market downturn — has been an operating subsidiary of Tennessee-based United Coal since 2004 and mined about 600,000 tons of mid- to high-volatile metallurgical Sewell seam coal annually. Murray Energy Sues EPA Over Ozone Rule Murray Energy Corp. filed another lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The lawsuit, filed on Monday, October 26, is over the EPA's national ambient air quality standards for ozone levels. Murray Energy called the ozone rule "exorbitantly expensive, illegal and job-killing." The rule, which was published in the F ederal Register on October 26, decreases the limit for ozone e missions from 75 parts per billion to 70 parts per billion. "This ozone rule is yet another illegal and destructive action aimed at killing these jobs," said Robert Murray, chairman, presi- dent, and CEO of Murray Energy. "We have the law, science, eco- nomics, cold hard energy facts, and the Constitution on our side. We will continue to fight to preserve our jobs and livelihoods, and we will prevail in our litigation." JWR No. 4 Mine Lays Off 129 Walter Energy's Jim Walter Resources (JWR) No. 4 operation in Alabama, south of Birmingham, has reportedly cut 129 workers P E O P L E I N T H E N E W S Peabody Energy elected Robert A. Malone to the nonexecu- tive role of chairman of the board, effective January 1. The veteran executive has been serving as lead independent director of Peabody since January 2013. He will succeed Gregory H. Boyce, who will retire from Peabody effective December 31. He is the retired executive vice president of British Petroleum (BP) plc and former chairman of the board and president of BP America. Westmoreland Coal Co. announced that CEO Keith E. Alessi will retire. Alessi will remain an employee of the company as CEO Emeritus. Kevin A. Paprzycki, the company's CFO, has been named CEO, effective December 1. John Schadan has been promoted to president and COO to oversee global opera- tions for the company. Jason Veenstra, who also joined Westmoreland in April 2014 as part of the Canadian acquisition, has been promoted to CFO. Both promotions will be effective December 1. Paprzycki joined Westmoreland as controller and principal accounting officer in June 2006 and was named CFO in April 2008. Schadan joined Westmoreland in April 2014 as senior vice president, Canada operations, was promoted to executive vice president in August 2014 and president—Canada in March. Veenstra joined Westmoreland in April 2014 as CFO—Canada. At Sherritt International, he held roles that included director of business development and CFO for the coal division. Foresight Energy LP announced that Oscar Martinez, senior vice president and CFO, will resign. His departure is part of the integration plan that combined the corporate functions of Foresight and Murray Energy Corp. James Murphy, CAO, will assume the duties of principal financial officer. Former coal operator Omer Mason Bunn, 93, of Abingdon, Virginia, passed away on October 28, 2015. He was born June 30, 1922, on Beech Fork in Lavalette, West Virginia. He was a coal operator for 55 years, starting in East Lynn, West Virginia, shortly after his discharge from the Army. He later had mining operations in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. He served for 14 years as a board member on the state of Virginia Port Authority. He was honored as the recipient of West Virginia Coal Miners Hall of Fame in 2005. International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced that James W. Rubin has joined the firm's regulatory affairs group in Washington, D.C., as a partner. He joins Dorsey from Dentons U.S. LLP where he was counsel in the global energy sector. Fenner Dunlop has recently announced that it has restructured the leadership of its global business operations. Edwin Have has been appointed to the role of executive director, Northern Hemisphere. In this role, he will be responsible for ECS Northern Hemisphere/ Americas including Europe, India, North Africa/Middle East and the Americas. Most recently, he was man- aging director for ECS in EMEA. Cassandra Pan, president, has retired. David Landgren has been appointed executive director, Southern Hemisphere. He will be responsible for ECS Southern Hemisphere/Asia Pacific including Australia, China and South Africa. Samson announced that after 41 years, Tony Bon will step down as CEO on January 1. Andrea Sturm has been appointed as Bon's suc- cessor and joined the team in November. Bon will remain on staff through the end of 2016 to support Sturm during the transition. Tony Napier has been hired as Northern Light Technologies' new business unit manager, global digital solutions. His previous roles span from business owner to CEO of multiple major mining companies in Australia, where he acquired in-depth knowledge of both leaky feeder UHF/VHF and Wi-Fi. Baldor Electric Co. promoted Ryan Fitts to director of quality. In this role, he will be responsible for leading and directing Baldor's Corporate Quality program with a focus on addressing customer concerns, particularly around lead times, on-time delivery and root causes of product quality issues. Fitts joined Baldor in 2011 as a member of the lean core team. m Oscar Martinez Cassandra Pan James Rubin Edwin Have Omer Mason Bunn Ryan Fitts Andrea Sturm R obert Malone