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Best of Gazette-Mail: MSHA cuts fueling safety fears 15 years after Upper Big Branch
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Best of Gazette-Mail: MSHA cuts fueling safety fears 15 years after Upper Big Branch

  • By Mike Tony mtony@hdmediallc.com
  • Updated Sep 1, 2025
  • 12 min to read

Joe Main can tell you the exact moment he found out.

MSHA silica rule delay poised to linger long past rescheduled compliance date
Energy and Environment

MSHA silica rule delay poised to linger long past rescheduled compliance date

  • By Mike Tony mtony@hdmediallc.com
  • Updated Aug 15, 2025

Aug. 18 was supposed to be the day.

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ā€˜Fully operational’: WV miners get black lung X-rays as NIOSH mobile unit returns
Energy and Environment

ā€˜Fully operational’: WV miners get black lung X-rays as NIOSH mobile unit returns

  • By Caity Coyne West Virginia Watch
  • Updated Aug 5, 2025

MORGANTOWN — On a turf field in Morgantown last week, mine rescue teams from across the state put their training to use as they worked togethe…

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'Reckless and lethal': Trump's MSHA proposes weakening mine safety plan rules
Energy and Environment

'Reckless and lethal': Trump's MSHA proposes weakening mine safety plan rules

  • By Mike Tony mtony@hdmediallc.com
  • Updated Aug 27, 2025

The Trump administration has proposed weakening mine safety rules that loom large in West Virginia.

Miner allies fighting to reverse NIOSH cuts, renew safety research amid legal limbo
Energy and Environment

Miner allies fighting to reverse NIOSH cuts, renew safety research amid legal limbo

  • By Mike Tony mtony@hdmediallc.com
  • Updated Sep 3, 2025

Last week, 31 construction workers escaped with no major injuries reported after an 18-foot-diameter tunnel collapsed in Los Angeles, nearly 4…

Gutting of NIOSH mining research, other units endangering workers, unions tell court
Energy and Environment

Gutting of NIOSH mining research, other units endangering workers, unions tell court

  • By Mike Tony mtony@hdmediallc.com
  • Updated Aug 15, 2025

Unions and occupational safety providers say the federal agency with statutory responsibility to protect workers’ health and safety through re…

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NIOSH head says respiratory health operations not restored in court-set time frame
Energy and Environment

NIOSH head says respiratory health operations not restored in court-set time frame

  • By Mike Tony mtony@hdmediallc.com
  • Updated Jul 11, 2025

The Trump administration has indicated that key operations to protect the respiratory health of the nation’s miners and other workers haven’t …

Sustained NIOSH mining research staff cuts could violate federal court order
Energy and Environment

Sustained NIOSH mining research staff cuts could violate federal court order

  • By Mike Tony mtony@hdmediallc.com
  • Updated Jul 15, 2025

Miner allies say it’s dangerous for the Trump administration to sustain staff cuts to mining research divisions within the federal agency that…

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'We rely on NIOSH': Safety experts decry Trump administration cutting off mining research

  • By Mike Tony mtony@hdmediallc.com
  • Updated Jul 15, 2025

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. scarcely allowed that it hasn’t been business as usual at the federa…

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NIOSH veterans look ahead to agency future after respiratory health job restorations
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NIOSH veterans look ahead to agency future after respiratory health job restorations

  • By Mike Tony mtony@hdmediallc.com
  • Updated May 20, 2025

At about 1:45 p.m. Tuesday, Scott Laney got notice his ā€œreduction in forceā€ cutting his research epidemiologist position of over 15 years with…

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