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President Obama Nominates Heads Of Mining Agencies
President Barack Obama has nominated former United Mine Workers union official Joe Main to head the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration.
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President Barack Obama has nominated former United Mine Workers union official Joe Main to head the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Also Monday, the president nominated Pennsylvania Bureau of Mining and Reclamation director Joseph Pizarchik to head the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
Main spent 22 years running the UMW's Occupational Health and Safety Department and the White House says he is an international expert who brings vast experience. MSHA oversees health and safety issues in the nation's surface and underground mines, quarries and related
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The federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement helps regulate the controversial practice of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia, among other things.
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