Bush Compromises Worker Safety

News and Opinion for Democrats Against Bush -- Part II

Bush Compromises Worker Safety

"The dispute has become a flashpoint between the Bush administration and critics of its mining policies, who contend the administration has tried to weaken environmental and safety regulations to help big coal companies that contribute heavily to the Republican Party."

New York Times November 9, 2003

Mine Safety Official Critical of Policies Faces Firing

By JAMES DAO

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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70814F9385D0C7A8CDDA80994DB404482

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 — The Bush administration has notified a mine safety official who has sharply criticized federal mining policies that it intends to fire him, according to documents and the official's lawyers.

The official, Jack Spadaro, the superintendent of the National Mine Health and Safety Academy in Beckley, W.Va., has been an outspoken critic of a federal investigation into a huge spill of coal sludge in eastern Kentucky three years ago. The accident, at the Martin County Coal Company, is considered one of the biggest environmental disasters in the Appalachian region. ...

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