The headline and blurb do not talk about why this is not anywhere near as good a thing as it sounds, but the article does.
And that, some worry, is exactly where the effort may fail. The new regulations still allow mine operators to conduct their own sampling, a longtime source of grievance for miners and their advocates who simply do not trust coal companies to accurately report silica levels.
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Regulators allow mines to do their own monitoring because MSHA simply can’t afford to inspect every mine.
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Even under the more labor-friendly Biden administration, MSHA saw a smaller-than-expected budget increases in last year’s annual appropriations bill.
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Robinson also worries about other weaknesses in the new regulation. It uses an eight-hour day as an average to estimate silica exposure, but most miners work 10- or 12- hour shifts. It also allows for just four MSHA silica dust inspections per mine per year, a rate that may not capture the true risk of exposure. Recent investigations by National Public Radio also revealed the agency may have undercounted the number of black lung cases recorded in recent years because studies showing explosive growth have not yet been peer-reviewed.
Rebecca Shelton, the policy director at Appalachian Citizens Law Center, has been poring over the rule since its release. She is particularly concerned about coal companies’ continued control over testing, since the industry has had a history of cheating on results. Shelton said monthly mine testing by MSHA would be ideal because the amount of dust in the air can change depending on where in a mine the company is working, ventilation and other factors. The Mine Safety Health Administration dismissed the idea of creating a lower permissible exposure limit because it would be too costly for mine operators, something she said indicates “a prioritization of the economics of the industry over the lives of miners.”
Adopting a brain healthy lifestyle, such as eating a Mediterranean-style diet, limiting alcohol and stopping smoking, staying on top of vascular risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol, regularly evaluating and treating hearing and vision loss, all while “getting adequate sleep and managing stress can help people slam the breaks on cognitive decline,” he [Isaacson] said.
Literally all of that described my father. He was even a university professor, so he had a lot of schooling.
He also died of frontal lobe dementia. (My wild hypothesis is it was because of what he was inhaling as a child, growing up in London during the Blitz.)
Three men accused by the Crown of helping lead and coordinate the COVID-19 protest blockade at Coutts, Alta., in 2022 have been found guilty of mischief....
Who wants to be this school instruction will not differentiate between communism and socialism and will also say that it necessarily means dictatorship?
Smartmatic isn’t going to get paid in the future unless its machines are considered trustworthy by the public, so they have a very big interest in keeping elections safe and secure. That their motivations to do so are financial doesn’t really bother me. Should it?
It’s not. He even has defenders on Lemmy. Say that he has no experience as an engineer when it comes to cars and rockets and they come crawling out of the woodwork with quotes from people who worship him saying he’s totally an engineering genius.
It still has nothing to do with his shitty cars and I still didn’t know you owned one.
But it does reveal what kind of person you are that you casually dismiss Musk’s overt bigotry as if it is a “don’t invite him to dinner” sort of thing.
I don’t know how many more times I have to say that it has nothing to do with his shitty cars, but you do seem to be ignoring it, so I’ll say it again, this time in big letters:
It has nothing to do with his shitty cars.
Elon being a tool.
You must come from immense privilege to see someone as rich and powerful as Elon spew overt bigotry and merely call him ‘a tool’ as if he couldn’t utilize his bigotry and wield actual power with it.
I’ve been very pleased with my car. I plan to buy the truck based on my m3 experience.
I really don’t care.
However, out of curiosity: Do you agree with Elon that Jews are not white? Do you agree with Elon that Jews oppress white people?
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Pls pls pls.... (slrpnk.net)