<
/cgi-bin/texis/search/+7wxFq4iwGmaAnDaxcwqAac1DtaM5rwaG1cnacoMoBqzmwwwwmzmeE-wwwhFq0eRGlnGeRRHmqwceRkHmGprveRDxxLo5eRS3t+XWXtFqwrFqw>
Documents -7 - 2 of about 7,137 matching the query, best matches first.
Hal Rogers, R-Ky., and subcommittee Chairman Denny Rehberg, R-Mont. - slipped into MSHA's current year budget a provision that blocked the new blacklung rules until the GAO completed an analysis of the MSHA plan. Last month, House... Published: Saturday, August 18, 2012 Words: 912
released Wednesday, dismissed coal industry complaints that the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration had misused recent data on the trends in blacklung prevalence in developing its draft rule, which was proposed in October 2010... Published: Saturday, April 12, 2014 Words: 586
exposure, and whose progression may not be instantly stopped even if exposure were completed eliminated." We aren't going to be able to end blacklung with this rule overnight," said Dr. Greg Wagner, deputy assistant labor secretary... Published: Friday, October 15, 2010 Words: 761
Smith. Later, MSHA spokeswoman Amy Louviere said in January 2012 that the budget amendment would not restrict her agency from finalizing the blacklungrule - only from implementing or enforcing it. But so far, MSHA has not sent a final... Published: Monday, July 09, 2012 Words: 1013
down, scrambling to decide which - if any - new initiatives to try to finish up before leaving office. Union resistance was enough to kill the blacklung plan. This time around, UMW officials have objected to portions of the Obama administration's... Published: Friday, October 12, 2012 Words: 762
this month to June 2014. On the blacklungrule, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has urged President Obama to expedite approval of the final MSHArule. Blacklung, the common name for coal worker's pneumoconiosis, is an irreversible... Published: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 Words: 491
Government Accountability Office issued a major report that supported MSHA's proposal to toughen coal dust limits to fight a resurgence of blacklung. That GAO report's findings ended a block by congressional Republicans on issuance... Published: Sunday, May 12, 2013 Words: 1144
Government Accountability Office issued a major report that supported MSHA's proposal to toughen coal dust limits to fight a resurgence of blacklung. That GAO report's findings ended a block by congressional Republicans on the issuance... Published: Saturday, July 06, 2013 Words: 671
mine safety legislation, Congress made eliminating blacklung a national goal. The law required mine operators to take steps to limit exposure. Blacklung was reduced significantly, but, at least in part because of industry cheating... Published: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 Words: 793
nationwide died of blacklung, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. West Virginia recorded the second-highest blacklung deaths of any state, with more than 1,800 during that period, according to NIOSH.... Published: Friday, September 06, 2013 Words: 1187