Coal mine safety laws have huge holes, and Congress isn't interested in fixing them

Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship may have been the rare upper-level coal executive indicted on criminal charges in the deaths of his workers, but he's the exception that proves the rule of just how weak mine safety laws are . As Mother Jones 's Tim Murphy points out: ... under the Mine Safety Act, conspiring to violate mine safety standards is only a misdemeanor.



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