Occupational Safety and Health NewsAlert

CONGRESS HOLDS HEARING ON MSHA CASE BACKLOG

For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC

Volume 6, Number 3

©2010 Jackson Kelly PLLC

 

            The House Committee on Education and Labor, under Chairman George Miller (D-CA), held a hearing on Tuesday, February 23, 2010, to discuss “Reducing the Growing Backlog of Contested Mine Safety Cases.” 

MSHA’s 2011 Budget Justification

For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC

Volume 6, Number 2

©2010 Jackson Kelly PLLC

 

            There can be few things as dry as a federal agency’s Congressional Budget Justification but the 85 page document that the Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”) recently released to justify its FY2011 budget submission to Congress has some interesting information for mine operators.  The budget submission reflects the agency’s expected emphasis on health issues and impoundments and references the recently-announced enforcement program for priority standards.