DBI-SALA INTRODUCES THEIR NEW MINER’S HARNESS RANGE

DBI-SALA, a Capital Safety brand solely dedicated to the fall protection market, has announced the launch of their NEW Miner’s fall protection range. Body belts such as miner’s belts & rigging belts having been removed from the standard are no longer supplied with a certification mark, as a result, Capital Safety through the DBI-SALA brand have developed a new range of miner’s harnesses... 

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Pollution from trains complicates coal plan

Locomotive trains hauling coal to a slew of proposed new power plants in North Texas would emit enough pollution that local leaders may have to consider more drastic measures than already planned to meet federal ozone regulations, a state analysis concludes. TXU Corp. and energy industry advocates insist that the coal-fired power plants planned to be built in East and Central Texas would be clean,... 

Pa. yanks permit from mine with fatality

Pennsylvania regulators stripped a coal mine operator of its permit Friday, saying it covered up the cause of an explosion two years before a miner in a similar blast there was killed. The Department of Environmental Protection ordered R&D Coal Co. to seal its Buck Mountain Slope Mine, where Dale Reightler, 43, was killed in an explosion sparked by methane gas in October. In 2004, four workers... 

Conservationists ask if Chuitna coal mine is worth the risks

Mining the Beluga coal fields across Cook Inlet from the Kenai Peninsula may put a spark in the Southcentral Alaska economy, but conservationists say it also will endanger rich salmon spawning streams and add significant pollution to the local atmosphere. PacRim Coal LP, the company developing the Chuitna Coal Project located within the Beluga deposit, is at work on a supplemental environmental impact... 

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Witnesses urge Pa. to put stricter curbs on coal-fired mercury pollution

Pennsylvania should enact a state plan forcing coal-fired power plants to cut mercury emissions 90 percent by 2015, rather than adopt less stringent rules favored by the Bush administration, witnesses told a public hearing yesterday. All but one of 30 speakers who addressed the state’s Environmental Quality Board sitting in Norristown sharply criticized a federal plan that would extend the time... 

Certification for gas drilling offered

Arkansas State University-Searcy, a technical campus of ASU-Beebe, will hold an Energy Training Council (E.T.C.) Safety Training course on Aug. 12. This course is designed for people interested in working for the Gas Drilling Industry. The class will be offered from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuition is $100, which includes materials. This is a ten-hour non-credit class offered through Continuing Education....