Love the Free Market…
By …especially when freedom from regulation gives mine shafts the liberty to collapse on people:
The general manager and possibly other senior staff at the Crandall Canyon Mine near Huntington, Utah, where 9 miners died in August 2007, hid information from federal mining officials that could have prevented the disaster and should face criminal charges, according to a Congressional investigation whose results were released Thursday.
The report also said that the mining company should never have submitted a request to remove coal from the section of mine where the collapse occurred, and that federal mining officials should not have approved the proposal, because of foreseeable dangers.
It’s simple enough; gutting safety regulations and eliminating government enforcement capacity leads to people dying, whether through unsafe working conditions or through poor product safety. There’s no other way to tell the story.