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Trump administration reverses planned closures of 3 dozen US mine safety offices
- The Trump administration reversed its plans on May 29, 2025, to close 34 Mine Safety and Health Administration offices across the United States.
- This decision followed earlier spending-cut efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency, which had targeted these leases to save $18 million.
- MSHA, created in 1978 to enforce mine safety laws, had experienced a 27% staff reduction overall and a 50% cut in enforcement staff for coal mines over the past decade.
- Coal production supports over 11,000 jobs, and Jack Spadaro, an experienced mine safety investigator, described the decision to keep MSHA offices open as a positive development for both miners and agency inspectors.
- Maintaining these offices signals ongoing federal commitment to mine safety and highlights concerns about closures' potential impacts on coal communities.
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Mine safety field offices will remain open
FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – The General Services Administration has reversed its intent to close more than 30 U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) field offices, which had been scheduled for elimination by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
United Mine Workers of America applaud reversal of MSHA office closures
TRIANGLE, VA (WOWK) — The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) are in better spirits after the Trump administration reversed its plan to close 34 Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) offices across the U.S. “The idea that anyone would even consider shuttering dozens of MSHA field offices, most of which are located in remote mining communities, shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what it takes to keep miners safe,” UMWA International…
Trump administration reverses MSHA closures that coal mining advocates fought to keep
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — Appalachia and coal miner advocacy groups celebrated that dozens of Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) offices that were scheduled to close will now remain open, the Trump administration announced Thursday. A total of 34 offices were set to close, including one in Summersville, West Virginia, after being targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) earlier this year. The terminated leases for th…
Trump Administration Reverses Course, Will Keep 34 Mine Safety Offices Open
The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the agency responsible for enforcing mine safety laws, the Department of Labor said Thursday. Earlier this year, the Department of Government Efficiency, created by President Donald Trump and run by Elon Musk, had targeted federal agencies for spending cuts, including terminating leases for three dozen MSHA offices. Seven o…
Federal officials call miners’ health a ‘priority,’ but are cutting a Pa. team studying mine safety • West Virginia Watch
Brendan Demich speaks at a rally outside HHS offices in Washington, D.C. on May 22. (AFGE webstream)Brendan Demich was on a bus to Washington, D.C. last week to attend a rally outside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ office. At the same time, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was assuring lawmakers that critical programs in his department, specifically those protecting coal miners, would continue despite drastic cuts to his…
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