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Dave Jamieson

Lone Miner Takes On Big Coal And Wins -- Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.05.2013 | Business
Read More: Workplace, Big Coal, Mining, Charles Scott Howard, Kentucky, Arch Coal, Mine Safety, Workplace Safety, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal, Coal Mining, Business News

WASHINGTON -- A panel of federal judges ruled Thursday that a Kentucky miner who was fired two years ago after alleging unsafe conditions at his mine ...

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Dave Jamieson

Sequestration's Gift To Deadly Coal Companies

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.29.2013 | Politics
Read More: Sequestration Mine Safety, Massey Energy, Labor, Video, Miners, Budget Cuts, Mine Safety Sequestration, Labor Department, Mine Safety, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Sequester, Coal Mining, Sequestration, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Facing budget cuts under congressional sequestration, the federal agency overseeing mine safety is planning to severely cut back its eff...

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On 35th Anniversary of Mine Safety and Health Act, Still More Work to Do

Sen. Tom Harkin | Posted 05.12.2013 | Politics
Read More: Robert Byrd, Mine Safety, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Mining, Labor, Coal Mine Safety, Msha, Politics News
Sen. Tom Harkin

We must keep pressing forward with the legacy of the Mine Safety and Health Act. It is far too important, and too many lives are at stake, to give up now.

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Feds Approve Mine Safety Rules

AP | By VICKI SMITH | Posted 03.19.2013 | Green
Read More: Energy, Federal Mine Safety Rules, Mine Safety Rules, Federal Mine Safety Laws, Upper Big Branch, Federal Mine Safety Legislation, Mine Safety Legislation, Mine Safety, Mine Safety Laws, Upper Big Branch Mine, Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, Green News

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — New federal rules approved Thursday could help save lives at dangerous mines with a pattern of safety violations and put mo...

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Dave Jamieson

'Playing Politics With People's Lives'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 08.18.2012 | Politics
Read More: Congress, Jay Rockefeller, Miners, West Virginia, Black Lung Disease, Mine Safety, Workplace Safety, Coal, Coal Lobby, Dirty Coal, Msha, Video, Mining, Denny Rehberg, Kentucky, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Black Lung, National Mining Association, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Someday, a device known as the personal dust monitor could save coal miners a lot of misery. The "PDM," as it's known in mining circ...

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Mine Landslide Kills 60 In Congo

AP | By SALEH MWANAMILONGO | Posted 10.15.2012 | World
Read More: Faustin Drakana Kananga, Video, Mine Safety, Congo, Congo Gold Mine, Congo Mine Landslide, Ap, World News

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A landslide at a gold mine in a remote corner of northeast Congo has left at least 60 people dead, a local administrator said...

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Dave Jamieson

Miner Beats Big Coal In Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 06.19.2012 | Business
Read More: Energy, Whistleblowers, Video, Big Coal, Charles Scott Howard, Labor Department, Kentucky, Arch Coal, Mine Safety, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal, Cumberland River, Tony Oppegard, Business News

Kentucky miner Charles Scott Howard lost his job at Cumberland River Coal Co. last May, after years of butting heads with management over safety issue...

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Dave Jamieson

More Workers Killed On Job In 2010, Labor Group Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.03.2012 | Business
Read More: White House, House of Representatives, Workers, Workplace Deaths, Safety, Office of Management and Budget, Afl-Cio, Regulation, Mine Safety, Worker Safety, Barack Obama, Cass Sunstein, Death, Video, Workplace, Gop, Unions, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Thirteen U.S. workers were killed on the job each day and roughly 50,000 died from work-related diseases in 2010, a worrisome increase i...

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Dave Jamieson

West Va. Gov Wants To Drug Test Miners

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.07.2012 | Green
Read More: Massey Energy, Video, Drug Testing Coal Miners, Mining, West Virginia, Drug Testing, Drugs, Mine Safety, Coal, Earl Ray Tomblin, Upper Big Branch Mine, Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, Green News

Drug testing for miners has become a crucial component of the safety legislation under consideration in West Virginia in the wake of the Upper Big Bra...

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Federal Official: 'We've Got To Stay Focused On Mine Safety'

AP | VICKI SMITH | Posted 04.07.2012 | Green
Read More: Energy, Video, Mine Safety Complacency, Mountaintop Removal, Joe Main Mine Safety, Mines, Mine Safety, Sago Mine, Coal Mining, Joe Main, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — If there's one lasting cultural change Mine Safety and Health Administration Director Joe Main wants to make in both the fe...

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Dave Jamieson

Disgraced Senator Resurfaces Lobbying For Big Coal

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.22.2011 | Green
Read More: Jay Rockefeller, Lobbying, Big Coal, Mining, Lobbyists, Crandall Canyon, Mine Safety, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Coal, Larry Craig, Murray Energy, George Miller, Shelly-Moore-Capito, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Having left Congress after an embarrassing 2007 arrest, former Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has quietly reemerged in Washington as a lobby...

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Miners Rescued After 14 Hours

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.20.2011 | Green
Read More: Kentucky Miners, Russell Asher, Doug Warren, Mine Safety, Kentucky Coal Mining, Pernell Witherspoon, Kentucky Miners Trapped, Kentucky Mine Accident, Mining, Middlesboro Mine, Bell County Miners, Miners Trapped Bell County, Coal Mining, Middlesborough Mine, Green News

3 Men Freed After Being Trapped in Kentucky Mine UPDATE 1:03 a.m. The Courier-Journal reports that the miners were rescued s...

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Dave Jamieson

House Dems: Coal Industry Rep Gave 'Questionable' Testimony On Whistleblower Retaliation

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 07.16.2011 | Politics
Read More: Msha, Massey Energy, Whistleblowers, Massey Coal Mine, Charles Scott Howard, Massey Energy Company, Robert Byrd, Arch Coal, Mine Safety, Anthony Bumbico, Upper Big Branch Mine, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats have accused a coal industry representative of giving "questionable" testimony during a hearing on mine safety reform ea...

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Families Of Dead Coal Miners Let Down By Inaction In Washington

Los Angeles Times | Kim Geiger, Tom Hamburger and Doug Smith | Posted 07.08.2011 | Politics
Read More: Mine Safety Regulations, Coal Mine Legislation, West Virginia Coal Mining, Coal Mine Safety, Big Branch, Coal Mine Regulations, West Virginia, Mine Safety Legislation, Mine Safety, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Coal Mining, Upper Big Branch Mine, Politics News

While there have been improvements, many of the glaring problems revealed by the explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine remain unaddressed....

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64 Percent Of U.S. Mines Lack Communications Gear

AP | Posted 06.08.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy, Mine Safety Gear, Mine Communications Mandate, Coal Mine Communications, Mine Communications, Mine Safety, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Mine Communications Gear, Green News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- U.S. coal mine operators remain well short of meeting a 5-year-old congressional mandate to equip underground mines with high-tec...

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Marcus Baram

West Virginia Mine Disaster: One Year Later, Safety Overhaul Stalled

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 06.04.2011 | Green
Read More: Upper Big Branch, Watchdog Blog, Thewatchdog, Mine Safety, Mine Anniversary, Upper Big Branch Disaster, Mine Disaster, Green News

NEW YORK -- A year after the worst coal mining accident in decades took the lives of 29 workers, prompting urgent calls to revamp oversight of one of ...

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Is 'The Bar For Prosecution Too High' With Mine Safety?

AP | VICKI SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Msha, Energy, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Mine Safety, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Mine Regulators, Green News

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Federal mine regulators need stronger laws to protect the nation's underground coal miners, particularly when it comes to pr...

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Green News Report: January 6, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Floods, House of Representatives, Cap and Trade, Epa, Regulation, Pipelines, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Coal, Offshore Drilling, Apocalypse, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, US Senate, Gop, Coal Ash, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Global Warming, Fish Kill, Arkansas, Bp, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Nuclear Energy, Environmentalism, BRAD BLOG, Mining, Oil, Green News, Sustainability, Climate Legislation, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, China, Desertification, Glaciers, France, John Boehner, Wikileaks, Msha, Infrastructure, Rising Sea Level, Judy Bonds, Mountaintop Removal, Incandescent Bulbs, Genetically Modified Food, John Kasich, Massey Energy, Gmos, White House Oil Spill Commission, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Creation Care, Mine Safety, Energy Efficiency, High Speed Rail, Fox News, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The new m...

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Feds Issued 600 Mine Safety Violations In September

AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: West Virginia Mine Safety, Mine Safety, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Green News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Federal inspectors issued nearly 600 citations for safety violations found at 30 problem mining operations across the countr...

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Marcus Baram

Cave In: How Industry And Inattention Killed Mine Safety Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Mining Disasters, Massey Energy, Mine Safety Act, Upper Big Branch, Mine Safety, Mine Safety Bill, George Miller Mine Safety, Upper Big Branch Mine, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Green News

"Every mine law ever wrote has been written in blood, but this time even that wasn't enough" - Fred Burgess, whose stepson died in the Upper Big Branc...

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GOP Unmoved by Miners' Health Concerns While MSHA Cracks Down on Black Lung, Scofflaws

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Gop, Massey Energy, Coal Industry, Mining, Mine Safety, Obama, Congress, Coal, Business News
Art Levine

In an earlier political era, a major mine disaster like the explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine that killed 29 miners might have spurred Congress to take action. Not in today's Washington.

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Feds Sue To Close Massey Mine In Kentucky Over Safety Violations

AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Massey Energy, Pike County, Massey Mine, Kentucky, Regulation, Freedom Energy Mine, Mine Safety, Freedom Energy Mine No. 1, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The U.S. Department of Labor filed an unprecedented federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to close a mine operated by troubled c...

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Rahall Touts Seniority, Accomplishments On Mine Safety

Heath Harrison | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Political Ads, Massey Energy, Elliott Spike Maynard, Nick Rahall, Mine Safety, Health Care, Eyes and Ears, Home News
Heath Harrison

Democrat Nick Rahall has represented West Virginia's 3rd Congressional district since 1977 and currently chairs the House Natural Resources Committee ...

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China Coal Mine Explosion Kills 20, Traps More Than 30

AP | KEN TEH | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Green News, China Mine Safety, Mine Safety, China Mining, Coal Mining, China, China Mine, China Mine Explosion, World News

YUZHOU, China — Dozens of anxious relatives and friends of 11 miners trapped underground by an explosion in central China gathered outside the s...

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Let's Cheer the Chilean Miners -- and Fight for Workers Everywhere

Richard Trumka | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Upper Big Branch Mine, John Raese, Rand Paul, Umwa, Chile, United Mine Workers of America, Afl-Cio, Mine Safety, Chilean Miners, Unions, Union, Massey, Politics News
Richard Trumka

While I cheered for the miners coming up from the ground beneath the Atacama Desert, it was painful to recognize yet another sign of the dangerous, corporate-driven agenda that has far more regard for the bottom line than for working people.

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