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Trump administration pauses new mine safety regulation − here’s how those rules benefit companies as well as workers

  • Written by Jeremy M. Gernand, Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Safety Engineering, Penn State
imageFederal officials in white hard hats speak with miners in an Indiana coal mine in 2015. AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley

President Donald Trump’s administration has announced its intention to pause or reverse regulations on mine safety, saying it wants to loosen rules that constrain companies. But as a scholar of both engineering and public policy,...

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