Bob Murray, Outspoken Coal Baron Who Fought EPA, Dies at 80
- Founded Murray Energy, once a leading U.S. coal company
- Called the 2015 Paris climate agreement ‘a meaningless fraud’
Robert Murray
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Robert Murray, a fourth-generation coal miner who became one of the embattled industry’s most outspoken advocates, has died. He was 80.
Murray died early Sunday morning at his home in St. Clairsville, Ohio, of a lung disorder, according to Michael Shaheen, the family’s lawyer. He was diagnosed in 2016 with coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, or black lung disease, and attended industry events in recent years with a portable oxygen container.