Re: Bush collapses mine

Since the Bush administration took office in 2001, it has been more
lenient than its predecessors toward mining companies facing serious
safety violations, issuing fewer and smaller major fines and
collecting less than half of the money that violators owed, a Knight
Ridder investigation has found.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13087


David Dye, the acting director of the Mine Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA), walked out halfway through a two-hour Senate
hearing Monday on the Sago Mine disaster, refusing to answer questions
about his agency's failure to enforce safety regulations that might
have saved 14 West Virginia miners who were killed in two separate
accidents this month.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jan2006/msha-j27.shtml


The Bush Administration nominee to head the Mine Safety and Health
Administration, Richard Stickler, is a former executive of Massey
Energy, one of the largest coal producers

http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/24

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