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Showing posts with label mine safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mine safety. Show all posts
Monday, August 07, 2023

At hearing on mine-dust rule, miner advocates and industry find fault; next one is Thursday morning in Beckley, W.Va.

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Dr. Drew Harris demonstrates why temporary use of respirators may not protect miners. (Photo by Justin Hicks, LPM) The first of three hearin...
Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Labor Department proposes rule to give miners same protection against silica dust as those in other industries

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After decades of delay, federal regualators have  proposed to limit  the exposure of miners to silica dust to the same limits that apply to ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

3 Charleston Gazette-Mail reporters say paper fired them for criticizing publisher's fawning interview with ex-coal baron

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Three reporters from West Virginia's Charleston Gazette-Mail say the newspaper fired them after publicly criticized their company presi...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Republicans still effectively control mine-safety commission, which seems not to be a priority for Senate Democrats

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"Sixteen months into the Biden presidency, Republicans still effectively control a federal agency that oversees mine safety, frustratin...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Biden recently nominated a mine-safety chief, but still no one to run Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining

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"Congress approved $11.3 billion to clean up abandoned mine lands in the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, but environmental groups ar...
Friday, August 20, 2021

Tom T. Hall, who did 'a rhyming journalism of the heart,' dies

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Tom T. Hall (Photo by Robert Oermann) Tom T, Hall, who chronicled the everyday experiences of rural America in plain language that was alway...
Monday, July 19, 2021

David Hawpe, who advocated for rural Kentucky as head of the state's largest newsroom, dies at 78; here's a tribute

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By Al Cross Director, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky David Hawpe died last night at 78. He was ...
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Monday, April 06, 2020

Honoring lost miners 10 years after Upper Big Branch blast

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Judy Jones Peterson looks at a photo of her brother, who died in the mine explosion. ( NPR photo by Howard Berkes) Ten years ago yest...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Federal audit: $1 billion in fines hasn't made mines safer

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Fines of more than $1 billion over 18 years for unsafe conditions have not improved mine safety, according to a four-year long audit from t...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Coal miners urge Congress to replenish black-lung fund

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About 120 coal miners with black-lung disease and their families went to Capitol Hill Tuesday to ask lawmakers to fully restore a coal tax ...
Thursday, May 09, 2019

Justice sues Justice, so to speak: Feds seek $4.7 million in fines owed by coal companies owned by W.Va. governor

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West Virginia Governor Jim Justice "The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a civil lawsuit against 23 coal companies owned by ...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Top manager of bankrupt coal company's Western Kentucky mines is charged with ordering falsification of dust samples

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Last year, eight former supervisors for now-bankrupt Armstrong Coal Co. were indicted on charges of conspiring to submit fraudulent dust s...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Black-lung clinics call for more action to protect coal miners

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A coalition of black-lung clinics is calling for the federal government to better protect coal miners from breathing dust that causes the d...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Getting black-lung benefits a daunting task for coal miners

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Black-lung claims by total received since July 1, 1973, including terminated, non-approved claims and Medical Benefits Only claims. (Oh...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Mining regulators could have stopped black-lung epidemic, reports NPR's Howard Berkes, who retires Dec. 31

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Danny Smith, one of the miners interviewed, poses at the coal mine where he worked. (NPR photo by Rich-Joseph Facun) After analyzing 3...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Ky. jury awards $67.5 million to miners whose defective dust masks (and smoking) caused black lung

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A jury in Knott County, Ky., awarded $67.5 million to two former coal miners who alleged that defective dust masks led to their debilitating...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Republicans attack ex-con coal CEO in W.Va. Senate race, fearing he will win May primary and lose in November

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Don Blankenship The contentious Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in West Virginia has become a potential obstacle for the GOP...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Ex-con coal baron nears lead in W.Va. Senate primary; illustrates 'conservative movement in rural America'

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Blankenship Convicted coal CEO Don Blankenship is running neck and neck in the race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in West ...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Ex-con coal baron's bid for W.Va. Senate seat gains traction

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Convicted misdemeanant at his campaign kickoff in January (Associated Press photo by Steve Helber) Don Blankenship's campaign for...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Former coal operator Don Blankenship, just out of prison, is running for U.S. Senate in W. Va.

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Blankenship Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is running for a U.S. Senate seat in West Virginia, Kennie Bass and Jeff Morris r...