Federal investigators determined that major engineering deficiencies left the Crandall Canyon coal mine primed for a massive pillar collapse, and tha...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
The Labor Department's Inspector General said Monday that the federal agency responsible for ensuring the safety of the nation's coal miners was "negl...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.29.2008 | Home
An energy company that owned the Crandall Canyon mine where nine people were killed in two collapses last August has shut another of its Utah coal min...
Charleston (W.V.) Gazette | Ken Ward Jr | Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics
Federal regulators have allowed mine operators to avoid fines for thousands of health and safety citations, despite a federal law that requires moneta...
Associated Press | Jesse Holland | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto a mine safety bill, saying the new regulations proposed by Democrats would interfere with legislation Pr...
AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 01.15.2008 | Home
The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto a mine safety bill, saying the new regulations proposed by Democrats would interfere with legislation Pr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 11.06.2007 | Home
As Congress takes another look at the safety issues plaguing the nation's coal mines, a documentary team from PBS' Expose series is shining a spotligh...
Rep. George Miller | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics
Preventable tragedies could continue to happen if we don't improve safety in the nation's mines, and Congress has a role to play in that effort.
AP | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics
Bureau of Land Management inspectors noted serious structural problems at Utah's Crandall Canyon Mine at least three years before two roof collapses k...
The New York Times | DAN FROSCH | Posted 09.24.2007 | Home
In the shadows of the Utah mountain where six miners were entombed and three rescue workers killed last month, a new mine safety commission will conve...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
When Katie Couric told Haaretz that "The glory days of TV news...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
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BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
If you're wondering about the recent articles claiming that a study found...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
Salt Lake Tribune | Robert Gehrke | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home