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N<\/span>ews Flash: Some Republican politicians think it might be a bad idea to kill their constituents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We just wrote a piece<\/a> on how the Trump administration wants to “revisit” MSHA’s new silica standard<\/a> that was issued in April 2024, but put on hold by Trump.<\/p>\n

The standard was intended to slow the skyrocketing rise of silica-related severe black lung cases plaguing this country’s miners. The protections included in the standard were projected to prevent 1,000 annual deaths and nearly 4,000 cases of black lung disease.<\/p>\n

Well, it seems that there may be a few Republicans who don’t want their constituents to succumb to preventable diseases just to stoke the bottom line of a few coal companies.<\/p>\n

It seems that there may be a few Republicans who don’t want their constituents to succumb to preventable diseases just to stoke the bottom line of a few coal companies.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

West Virginia Republican Senator Shelly Moore Capito told Politico’s<\/em> Weekly Shift<\/a> that\u00a0 \u201cI want our miners as safe as possible,\u201d and that she plans to discuss the regulation with the White House. \u201cI want them \u2014 particularly in the respiratory area with the history of black lung \u2014 to be safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good to know. Lungs are important.<\/p>\n

Capito also expressed “strong reservations<\/a>” about RFK Jr’s destruction of NIOSH last April, which included the agency’s black lung surveillance program.<\/p>\n

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice (R) also seems to want his voters to stay alive, according to Politico<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201cI really believe that President Trump knows how valuable our miners are, especially today, with the need for energy like nobody\u2019s business,\u201d said Sen.\u00a0Jim Justice<\/a>\u00a0(R-W.Va.). \u201cI really don\u2019t believe we\u2019re going to do anything that\u2019s going to endanger or put our miners in a situation where their health or safety would be in peril.\u201d<\/p>\n

One might have reason to doubt Justice’s sincerity.\u00a0 According to West Virginia Watch<\/a>, the family of the Governor owns nearly two dozen coal companies that owed more than $409,000 in delinquent mine safety fines to the federal government.\u00a0 He finally paid off<\/a> the fines in May.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Capito and Justice might want to tell her counterparts across the way in the House of Representatives to join them in stopping the killing of mineworkers.<\/p>\n

Last July, House Education and Workforce Committee Chair Tim Walberg (R-MI) and six other Committee Republicans sent a letter<\/a>\u00a0to MSHA\u2019s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, James McHugh, expressing their support for \u201cefforts to give businesses and workers relief from the overly burdensome regulations promulgated by the Biden-Harris administration,\u201d and reminding McHugh that MSHA\u2019s silica standard \u201cfalls squarely within the purview of President Trump\u2019s deregulatory EOs [Executive Orders]\u201d that \u201crequire agencies to rescind or revise regulations that impose significant costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

They would prefer to just slap respirators on everyone and call it a day.<\/p>\n

Anyway, what’s the rush? The delay is only condemning about 19 mineworkers every week to a preventable deaths.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Virginia Senator Time Kaine (D) has vowed to challenge any rollback of MSHA’s silica standard, using the Congressional Review Act, which enables Congress to rescind new standards and regulations. But even in the unlikely event that such a resolution passed in the Senate and House, the President would still have to sign it.<\/p>\n

Not holding my breath on that happening.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it may just be the numbers that sway this. Senator Capito is up for re-election next November. She won by a lot in 2020, but that Trump guy was on the ballot that year.\u00a0 If every West Virginia mineworker threatens to vote against Capito next November, and brings along every member of their extended family and friends who don’t want them to die, Capito — and Republicans across the country — might start getting worried about maintaining their Senate majority.<\/p>\n

Not holding my breath on that either. But it’s something to think about….<\/p>\n

Anyway, what’s the rush? The delay is only condemning about 19 mineworkers every week to a preventable deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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