Mining Safety Chief Deciding Whether to Settle Suit His Own Group Filed
February 23, 2018
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as posted by the channelDavid Zatezalo has a slight conflict of interest. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola, the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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“David Zatezalo, President Trump’s top official for mining safety, is set to decide over the next two weeks whether to settle a mining-safety lawsuit filed by an industry group that included Zatezalo at the time. The Mine Safety and Health Administration told TYT that MSHA lawyers have cleared Zatezalo to decide the matter.
The lawsuit was filed in March 2013 by the Kentucky Coal Association, opposing the Obama Administration’s use of a mine-safety rule known as POV, or Pattern of Violations. POV accelerates the penalty process for mining companies that repeatedly violate safety rules. Zatezalo, now the assistant secretary of mine health and safety, served on the Kentucky Coal Association board of directors through 2014.
As has been previously reported, through late 2014 Zatezalo was also chairman of Rhino Resource Partners, a mining company which twice ran afoul of POV during his tenure there. Rhino’s current CEO, Rick Boone, served as an executive under Zatezalo, and now sits on the Kentucky Coal Association executive committee.
The lawsuit filed by the Kentucky Coal Association was combined by a judge with other suits challenging the government’s use of the POV rule against repeat offenders. (Zatezalo also sat on the board of the Ohio Coal Association prior to its participation in the lawsuit.) The court has now given MSHA until March 9 to decide whether to settle the suit by rolling back its use of the POV rule.”
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