The Enemy Below . . . 0
. . . is the Current Federal Administration:
Congress overhauled mine safety rules after the January 2006 blast at the Upshur County mine. There were two other high-profile fatal mine accidents that year, and an August collapse in Utah killed nine miners.
But the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has yet to implement some of the standards established by the laws, and the United Mine Workers union, which represents some of the 42,000 miners who work in the nation’s 670 underground coal mines, blames the agency and mine owners for the delays.
