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The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, U.S. Public Law 91-173, generally referred to as the Coal Act, was passed by the 91st United States Congressional session and enacted into law by the 37th President of the United States Richard Nixon on December 30, 1969.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) (/ ˈ ɛ m ʃ ə /) is a large agency of the United States Department of Labor which administers the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act) to enforce compliance with mandatory safety and health standards as a means to eliminate fatal accidents, to reduce the frequency and severity of nonfatal accidents, to ...
1969 – Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act; 1969 – National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 1970 – Reorganization Plan No. 3 created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by Presidential Executive Order; 1970 – Clean Air Act (Extension).
25th Anniversary of the Surface Mining Law: A report on the protection and restoration of the nation's land and water resources under the Surface Mining Law, Office of Surface Mining, 2003. Available at OSM website. Green, Edward. State and Federal Roles Under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 21 S. Ill. U. L.J. 531 (1997)
The complex problem of the coal mining industry and the distribution of profits between the corporation and its labor force is covered well in this documentary. John Sayles's novel Union Dues (1977) is a fictional account of miners fighting for proper union representation in 1969. The Boyle-Yablonski dispute is a sub-plot which several ...
The collapse of a coal mining plant in Eastern Kentucky Tuesday has left one worker dead. Kentucky has a long history of coal mining disasters. These are 5 of the deadliest
Carter v. Carter Coal Co. Coal Act 1938; Coal Mines (Emergency) Act 1920; Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act 1912; Coal Mines Act 1911; Coal Mines Act 1930; Coal Mines Regulation Act 1908; Coal-Mining (Subsidence) Act 1950; Colliers and Salters (Scotland) Act 1775
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source. [1]The Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America would amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to require state programs for regulation of surface coal mining to incorporate the necessary rule concerning excess spoil, coal mine ...