1.0 link 59515 <![CDATA[Utah Mine Owner Attacked Post-Sago Safety Proposals]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/08/07/utah-mine-owner-attacked-_n_59515.html In the weeks following the Sago mine disaster in West Virginia in 2006, the owner of the Utah mine where six workers remained trapped underground Tuesday called state efforts to pass stricter mine safety laws "seriously flawed, knee-jerk" reactions.

"I resent these politicians playing politics with my employees' safety," Robert E. Murray told the Columbus Dispatch in January 2006.

Murray was responding to a proposal in the Ohio legislature that would have created a mining emergency operations center and required workers to...

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