Nonsense? Do you believe BP was not negligent?
I believe BP was not negligent.
Can you tell me what DOI, OSHA, EPA, or any other precautions they ignored?
Mine Tragedy Raises Questions About Bush AdministrationÂ’s Lack of Safety Enforcement
January 05, 2006
Jan. 5—The Sago coal mine in Upshur County, W.Va., where 12 miners were killed after a Jan. 3 explosion more than two miles from the mine mouth has a history of serious safety violations. Yet, according to government records, the mine’s owners have escaped significant fines.
Since taking office in 2001, the Bush administration has cut funding and staff at the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), the federal agency in charge of enforcing the nationÂ’s mine safety laws. The Bush administration has eliminated 170 jobs at MSHA and proposed to cut the MSHA budget in fiscal year 2006 by some $4.9 million in real dollar terms
AFL-CIO News: Mine Tragedy Raises Questions About Bush Administration’s Lack of Safety Enforcement
A little more than a year after taking office, the Obama administration and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis have taken significant steps to repair the damage to workplace safety and health left behind after eight years of the Bush administration.
For eight years under the Bush Administration, corporate officials and management representatives headed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Bush’s first MSHA head, David Lauriski, was chief safety officer at Emery Mining’s Wilberg, Utah, mine in 1984 when an explosion killed 27 coal miners. The blast, says Kaplan, “was later attributed to numerous violations at the mine.”
TodayÂ’s Workplace After 8 Years of Bush Neglect, Job Safety Gets New Boost from Obama, Solis
April 18, 2002
New Workplace Safety Policy Urges Voluntary Compliance
By Katrina C. Arabe
The Bush administration has created a stir with its new workplace safety policy. Whether you cheer or jeer depends upon which side of the workplace coin you're on.
The Bush administration recently announced its new workplace safety policy, which is creating controversy by emphasizing the voluntary effort of employers to curb work-related injuries. Business advocates and Republicans believe the policy is a fair one since it will not put undue financial strain on business owners.
Near the end of its term, the Clinton administration had put forth an ergonomic safety policy that was later repealed by Congress under the early Bush administration.
New Workplace Safety Policy Urges Voluntary Compliance : IMT Industry Market Trends
EPA's Voluntary Compliance is a Government Shell Game
The level of pollution clouding the EPA's focus was made abundantly clear by Congressional testimony submitted November 8th, 2007, by Stephen L. Johnson, the Bush-appointed director of the Agency. In his testimony, Johnson argued that the EPA should not have to regulate CO2 emissions as pollutants, even though a recent court decision classified CO2 emissions from automobiles as a regulated pollutant under existing law.
EPA's Voluntary Compliance is a Government Shell Game - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com
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