A federal court quashes the Trump admin.’s effort to relax a health and safety rule for miners, arguing that the changes would put miners at risk.
A federal court has quashed the Trump administration’s effort to relax a health and safety rule for mine workers, arguing that theThe Obama-era rule — finalized in 2017 in that administration's last days — requires mine operators to examine workplaces before miners begin their shifts and to make a record of adverse health and safety conditions. The rule applies to workers who extract granite, stone, copper and other noncoal substances from mines.
On June 11, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that the administration’s justification for relaxing the safety rule was “arbitrary and capricious." Under federal law, the MSHA is prohibited from making changes that weaken existing health and safety protections for workers.
“If the agency had been allowed to get away with this, there is no question that we would soon be looking at a host of other attempts to reduce safety standards in every mine in America,” union president Cecil RobertsThe National Mining Association, an industry group, was not part of the case but said it was “clearly disappointed in the ruling, given our firm belief that operators require flexibility in the timing of examinations,” spokesperson Conor Bernstein said in an email.
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