Religions > Atheism > Mining Lobbyists Paid Bush to Gut Safety Laws (GOP, The Blood on Their Hands)
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"Yang, AthD h.c, Kicking AWOLs Cocaine Snorting Ass" |
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06 Jan 2006 08:44:45 PM |
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Mining Lobbyists Paid Bush to Gut Safety Laws (GOP, The Blood on Their Hands) |
Oh yeah, a mine with 168 safety violations, keep it running folks.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/04/coal-mining/
Administration Neglected Coal Mining Safety «
Bloomberg reveals:
Federal authorities issued 21 citations last year for a build-up of
combustible materials at the West Virginia mine where 12 men died,
according to U.S. Labor Department statistics.
The mining explosion should call attention to the Bush
administration’s inadequate enforcement of federal mining safety
regulations. Mining safety in the U.S. has improved dramatically since
the Mining Safety and Health Act was signed in 1977. By the time that
President Clinton signed the International Labor Organization’s
Convention 176 concerning safety and health in mines, mining deaths
dropped from 425 in 1970 to 85 in 2000.
Phil Smith, the communications director for the United Mine Workers of
America, said that while citations have been issued, the fines
assessed for safety violations are too small to force large
corporations to make improvements. “The problem with the current laws
is enforcement.” According to an AFL-CIO analysis, the Bush
administration cut 170 positions from federal Mine Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA) and has not proposed a single new mine-safety
standard or rule during its tenure.
And there’s a reason for that. The Washington Post reported that West
Virginia coal firms raised $275,000 for Bush.
Last September, Bush rewarded the coal industry by placing coal
industry veteran Richard Stickler in charge of MSHA. Stickler spent
about 30 years as a coal company manager with Beth Energy. Mines
managed by Stickler were marked by worker injury rates that were
double the national average, according to government data cited by the
United Mine Workers union.
UPDATE:
Confined Space has this interesting analysis:
The fact is that President Bush has not requested budgets for OSHA or
MSHA that even keep up with the rate of inflation and mandatory pay
increases over the past several years while penalties for OSHA or MSHA
violations remain laughably low. The highest penalty of the more than
200 citations received last year by the Sago mine was $878. But that
was the exception. Most of the others were $250 or $60. At that rate,
it’s hardly a good business decision to even bother fixing anything.
And the administration has shut down any new worker protection
standards in OSHA and MSHA. « collapse post
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The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and counting
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