Alpha Foundation for the Improvement of Mine Safety and Health, Inc.

OVERVIEW The Alpha Foundation for the Improvement of Mine Safety and Health, Inc. (Foundation) was established as part of a Non-Prosecution Agreement (Agreement) entered in December 2011 by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia, the United States Department of Justice and Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (”Alpha”) and Alpha Appalachia Holdings, Inc. This Agreement was related to the explosion at Upper Big Branch Mine, an underground coal mine owned by Performance Coal Company, a former affiliate of Massey Energy Company, which Alpha acquired in June 2011, over a year following the UBB explosion. Mission: To improve mine health and safety through funding research and development projects by qualified academic institutions and other not-for-profit organizations. Vision: To enable miners in the future to be free of work-related injury or disease by the implementation of the results of the projects funded by the Foundation and undertaken by the best researchers from any discipline that can contribute.