Mine Safety And Health Administration News
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Coal miners will fare better if President Barack Obama is re-elected, as opponent Mitt Romney doesn’t understand the “nature of hard work,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said.
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Massey Energy Co. , owner of the West Virginia mine where 29 people were killed in April, sued the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration , saying the agency rejected ventilation methods that would have benefited underground workers.
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The U.S. appealed a federal judge’s June 22 order lifting a moratorium on deepwater oil drilling that was imposed after the BP Plc spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Peabody Energy Corp., the largest U.S. coal miner by volume, plans to permanently close a mine in Indiana after a drop in domestic demand and prices.
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Massey Energy Co., dealing with the death of 29 miners at one of its West Virginia coal mines, is being investigated by the FBI for possible bribery of state and federal inspectors, a person familiar with the probe said.
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration said today in a report that an internal review of its work at Massey Energy Co,’s Upper Big Branch mine found “several” instances where enforcement efforts were “compromised.”
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A West Virginia mining disaster claims lives. Congress pledges to pass legislation to crack down on mine operators.
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Massey Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Don Blankenship , whose company owns the West Virginia coal mine where 29 people died in April, said U.S. regulation of the industry is excessive.
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Author Michael Lewis was sued by Wing Chau, president and principal of Harding Advisory LLC, who accused the writer of defaming him in his 2010 book “ The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine .”
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Two miners died after a roof buckled at an Alliance Resource Partners LP’s mine in Kentucky, an operation ranked by government inspectors as among the nation’s most dangerous.
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