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mahatmakanejeeves

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Thu Sep 7, 2017, 10:38 AM Sep 2017

Trump Names Coal Executive to Head MSHA

Trump Names Coal Executive to Head MSHA

September 6, 2017

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I don’t have a whole lot of knowledge of the mining industry, so when in doubt, I turn to Ken Ward of the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Ward’s article on Zatezelo’s appointment notes that “In 2010 and 2011, Zatezalo was a top executive with Rhino when the company had a series of run-ins with MSHA over safety and health conditions at mines in West Virginia and Kentucky during a period when then-MSHA chief Joe Main was ramping up agency enforcement following the Upper Branch disaster.”
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