Thursday, March 05, 2009
Kentucky Senate Rejects Mining Bill
A bill that would sharply reduce state inspections of Kentucky coal mines hit a snag Thursday (today) when Senate leaders sent the measure back to the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee, which cleared it one day earlier. Committee chairman, Senator Tom Jensen, says there's been a backlash against the bill, and his committee will look for other options. The bill, Senate Bill 170, would change a provision in the state's mine safety law which requires at least six state inspections per year of every Kentucky coal mine. Those opposed say, under the proposal, mines could go an entire year without an inspection.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 9:44 PM 
