Mine Safety Official Critical of Policies Faces Firing

[Khephra]

The Bush administration has notified a mine safety official who has sharply criticized federal mining policies that it intends to fire him, according to documents and the official's lawyers.

The official, Jack Spadaro, the superintendent of the National Mine Health and Safety Academy in Beckley, W.Va., has been an outspoken critic of a federal investigation into a huge spill of coal sludge in eastern Kentucky three years ago. The accident, at the Martin County Coal Company, is considered one of the biggest environmental disasters in the Appalachian region.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/politics/09SLUR.html

[DUreader]

1. I remember this, reporters were barred from the whole area

[jpgray]

2. Jesus Christ, I don't remember this at all!

Does anybody have a link on hand? Scratch that I'll look myself. You know, I always think they've got me desensitized to this shit, but one headline or press conference later and BAM! Presto!