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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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Dave Jamieson

How Sequestration Hurts Miners But Not Coal Companies

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.26.2013 | Politics
Read More: Video, Workers, Miners, Sequester Cuts, Big Coal, Mining, Safety, Labor Department, Sequester, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal, Sequestration, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The nation's miners will be among those paying a high price for Congressional sequestration, with the head of the federal agency for min...

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19 Miners Rescued After Being Trapped Underground By Quake

AP | Posted 05.20.2013 | World
Read More: Poland Miners Rescued, Poland Earthquake, Miners, Poland Miners Trapped, Earthquakes, Poland, Mines, World News

WARSAW, Poland -- Nineteen miners trapped nearly a kilometer (half a mile) below ground by a cave-in at a copper mine in southern Poland were freed ea...

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Make My Valentine's Day Jewelry Conflict-free

Emmanuelle Chriqui | Posted 02.08.2013 | Impact
Read More: Valentine's Day Gifts, Valentine's Day, Miners, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Jewelry, Video, Impact News
Emmanuelle Chriqui

So what do you think, jewelry companies? Will you make my next Valentine's Day conflict-free?

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No. 21 UNLV Narrowly Escape Upset From UTEP

AP | Posted 12.18.2012 | Sports
Read More: Miners, Unlv, UNLV Basketball, Unlv Utep, UTEP Miners, Rebels, Ncaa, UTEP Basketball, Utep, Ncaa Basketball, Unlv Rebels, College Basketball, Sports News

EL PASO, Texas -- Bryce DeJean-Jones scored 12 points and Anthony Marshall added 11 for No. 21 UNLV in a 62-60 victory over UTEP on Monday night. Jaq...

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UTEP Falls To No. 12 Arizona

AP | JOHN MARSHALL | Posted 11.16.2012 | Sports
Read More: Miners, Arizona Basketball, UTEP Miners, Mark Lyons, Texas El Paso, UTEP Basketball, Utep, Arizona, Ncaa Basketball, College Basketball, Wildcats, Arizona Wildcats, Sports News

TUCSON, Ariz. -- One of Arizona's strengths this season is supposed to be a big front line filled with talented young players. The Wildcats didn't us...

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20 Miners Trapped In Mine After Fire

Reuters | Posted 11.25.2012 | Business
Read More: Potash Mine, Video, Mine Fire, Potash Mine Fire, Miners, Potash Corp, Reuters, Rocanville Mine, Trapped Miners, Business News

* 9 workers rescued * Trapped workers safe-company Sept 25 (Reuters) - An early morning fire that trapped 20 workers underground in a mine...

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LISTEN: Mine Workers Attended Romney Rally For Fear Of Losing Jobs

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.29.2012 | Business
Read More: Video, Miners, Bain Capital, Century Mine, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Sensata Technologies, Bob Murray, Wwva, Murray Energy, REPUBLICAN CONVENTION 2012, Business News

Click play to listen to news radio WWVA's interview with Murray Energy Company executive Rob Moore. Would you give up a day’s pay to see Mitt Ro...

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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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Family of Crippled Miner Sues Energy Company

AP | VICKI SMITH | Posted 08.27.2012 | Business
Read More: Consol Energy, Video, West Virginia Mine Explosion, Miners, West Virginia Mine, West Virginia, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Ap, Lawsuit, Business News

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The daughter of an Ohio man whose leg was ripped off in an accident last fall at West Virginia's Shoemaker Mine has filed a...

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You Don't Want Any Part of These Particles

Dr. Gary Ginsberg | Posted 05.11.2012 | Green
Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Commuting, Cancer, Diesel, Miners, Air Pollution, Cities, Dpm, Air Pollution Health, Environment, Green Living, Green Living Tips, Being Green, Green News
Dr. Gary Ginsberg

Cities are converting their fleet of buses over to greener cleaner burning natural gas buses and more trucks are being required to wear particle diapers. So urban air is slowing improving. In the meantime, a few tips to duck that diesel plume.

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Dying for Work

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.12.2012 | Business
Read More: Massey Energy, Bp, Taxi Cab Standard, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, Deepwater Horizon, Mitt Romney, Tesoro, Seaman?S Manslaughter Law, Beryllium, Bill Richardson, American Criminal Law Review, Osha, Upper Big Branch, Miners, Workers Safety, Mining, Coal Mining, Upper Big Branch Mine, Workers Rights, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Every day, 12 workers die on the job in America -- often because a corporation has defied regulations or ignored standard safety procedures. Many more die prematurely from work exposure to toxic materials.

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Dave Jamieson

GOP Gives Christmas Gift To Big Coal, Endangers Miners

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.19.2011 | Politics
Read More: Coal Miners, Massey Energy, Video, Miners Black Lung, Miners, Budget, Government Shutdown, Mining, Gop, Black Lung Disease, Democrats, Coal, Coal Mining, Black Lung, Upper Big Branch Mine, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As House Republicans and Democrats patted one another on the back over their new spending agreement Friday, advocates for coal miners we...

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Dave Jamieson

How One Miner Took On Big Coal

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.14.2011 | Politics
Read More: Energy, Massey Energy, Miners, Big Coal, Regulation, Arch Coal, Sago Mine, Coal Lobby, Msha, Coal Miners, Appalachia, Video, Charles Scott Howard, Kentucky, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Mining-Safety, George Miller, Upper Big Branch Mine, Tony Oppegard, National Mining Association, Politics News

WHITESBURG, Ky. -- On a July morning four years ago, Charles Scott Howard left his home in the mountains of Southeastern Kentucky and drove his pickup...

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Best Films and More About Work, for Labor Day

Wyatt Closs | Posted 11.01.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Way Down in the Hole, Stanley Nelson, Wasteland, Made in Dagenham, Locked Out, A Better Life, Gael Garcia Bernal, Paul Giamatti, Ben Affleck, Miranda Richardson, Brazil, Even the Rain, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Hbo, Too Big to Fail, Ilwu, Wyatt Closs, Summit Entertainment, Kevin Costner, Freedom Riders, Colorado Coalfied War, Sally Hawkins, The Company Men, Chris Weitz, William Hurt, Miners, Curtis Hanson, Eric Eason, Freedom Rides, Demian Bichir, Popwork, Entertainment News
Wyatt Closs

This Labor Day week, we take a look at a listing of nominees for best films, tv shows, and other artistic expressions in what are called the "2011 Workers' Voice Awards" from PopWork USA.

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After Year Of Fanfare, Chilean Minors Return To Poverty

www.washingtonpost.com | Posted 10.04.2011 | Impact
Read More: Caldera, Trapped Chilean Miners, President Sebastian Pinera, Chilean Miners Movie, Poverty, Miners, Impact News

SANTIAGO, Chile — They have an exhibit at the Smithsonian and a line of toys depicting their epic rescue. But most of the 33 men whose saga in a col...

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16 Killed In Ukraine Mine Blast

AP | MARIA DANILOVA | Posted 09.27.2011 | World
Read More: Ukraine Mines, Ukraine Mine Blast, Miners, Ukraine Mining Explosion, Ukraine Mining Accident, Ukraine, Miners Killed, World News

KIEV, Ukraine — A blast at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine and an elevator collapse at another on Friday killed at least 20 people, officials sai...

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What Makes San Francisco San Francisco?

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Prostitution, Gold Rush, Left Coast, San Francisco Values, California, Miners, Barbary Coast, San Francisco, Northern California, San Francisco-California, Politics News
Geri Spieler

With all the hullaballoo about "San Francisco Values," I decided to add some facts to the subject. The people of San Francisco are true settlers of this country and helped to build America to what it is today.

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20 Feared Dead In Massive Colombia Mine Blast

AP | FERNANDO VERGARA | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Colombia Coal Mine, Miners, Colombia, Mining, Colombia Mine, La Preciosa Mine, Geology, Coal Mine Explosion, World News

SARDINATA, Colombia — An explosion likely caused by a methane gas buildup ripped through an underground coal mine in Colombia during a shift cha...

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New Zealand Miners Dead; 'No One Would Have Survived' Says Official

AP | JOE MORGAN and RAY LILLEY | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Mine Accident, Miners, New Zelaand Miners Dead, New Zealand, New Zeland Mine Disaster, New Zealand Mine Rescue, New Zealand Miners Die, New Zealand Miners, New-Zealand-Miner-Trapped, New Zealand Mine Explosion, World News

GREYMOUTH, New Zealand — New Zealand held a national day of mourning Thursday for the 29 victims of its worst mining disaster in decades, while ...

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Breaking: EPA Vetoes Largest Mountaintop Removal Permit: New Era of Civility in the Coalfields?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Coal Miners, Epa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Lisa Jackson, Miners, Clean Coal, Robert Byrd, Spruce Mine Permit, Mountaintop Removal, Joe Manchin, Green Energy, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Invoking the rule of law and science, the EPA just announced their veto of the 2,300-acre mountaintop removal mining permit at the Spruce No. 1 Mine in West Virginia.

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My 2010 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 1]

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Debt, Elizabeth Warren, Tea Party, Proposition 8, Mcconnell, Whitman, Reform, Mccain, Awards, China, Steele, Mitch McConnnell, Sarah Palin, Turncoat of the Year, Deficit, Warren, Enough Already, Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Halter, Chickens for Checkups, Turncoat, Health Care, Obamacare, Detroit, Christine Odonnell, Vat, Michael Steele, Bp, Miners, Condit, Democrat, Democrats, Election, Biden, Barack Obama, Assange, Erskine Bowles, Rod Blagojevich, Rahm Emanuel, Bowles, Health, Best Comeback, Best of 2010, Coakley, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Worst Politician, Healthcare, Auto Industry, President, President Obama, Prop 8, John Boehner, 2010 Year End, Chandra Levy, Deficit Reduction, Obama, Democratic, Halter, Charlie Rangel, Wikileaks, Most Original Thinker, Vitter, Lieberman, Republican, Blagojevich, Pelosi, Mclaughlin, Clinton, Oil Spill, Gary Condit, Bummest Rap, Julian Assange, Most Stagnant Thinker, Most Defining Political Moment, Arlen Specter, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Spillcam, Sue Lowden, Wall St, 2010 Roundup, Specter, Biggest Loser, Chile, Person of the Year, Most Boring, McLaughlin Group, Gay, Martha Coakley, Worst Lie, Capitalist of the Year, Beau Biden, Meg Whitman, Best Photo Op, Prop 19, Rangel, Biggest Winner, Wall Street, Midterm, Chris Weigant, Proposition 19, Palin, Best Politician, Gulf, Alan Simpson, Boehner, Fairest Rap, Meggles, 2010, Marijuana, Politics News
Chris Weigant

My apologies to anyone tuning in who was expecting to see the 150th "Friday Talking Points" column, since it will be pre-empted for two weeks here. B...

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TRAGIC: 17-Year Old Was Among Miners Now Declared Dead

Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Coal Mine, Christchurch, Joseph Dunbar, Mine Explosion, New Zealand, Teenage Miner, Miners, Pike River Mine, New Zealand Mine, Trapped Miners, Mine Rescue, Pip Timms, Greymouth, World News

A teenage boy who was on the job for just one hour is among the 29 New Zealand coal miners trapped after last Friday's explosion, the New Zealand Hera...

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The Camel and the Cell Phone

Vicky Collins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Chilean Miners, At & T, Delhi, Nokia, Switzerland, NBC News, Pakistan, Beijing, Brazil, Chile, Msn, Inner Mongolia, Great Wall of China, Skype, Camel Safari, Kerry Sanders, Facebook, Olympics, Msnbc, Hebei Province, Lonely Planet, Thar Desert, Middle East, Bird?S Nest, India, Miners, U.S.A., Jaisalmer, Jinshanling, Sumatai, Travel News
Vicky Collins

We have gotten to a place where we are so interconnected that you can no longer escape, even in some of the most remote spots on earth.

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Chilean Miner Plans To Run In Marathon

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Trapped Chilean Miners, Runners, Miners, Running, New York Marathon, Ny News, Chilean Miners, The Marathon, Chilean Miner in New York City Marathon, Chile Miners, Edison Pena, Chile Miners Trapped, New York News

NEW YORK — The Chilean miner who jogged in the tunnels while trapped underground not only will attend Sunday's New York City Marathon – he...

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