(Source: Jackson Lewis LLP) A congressional mine safety hearing in October featured a dispute between regulators and the coal sector over dust sampling and disparate views among witnesses over how the federal government should oversee safety and health in the nation's mines. February 2016 is the deadline for coal operators to begin using the Continuous Personal Dust Monitor (CPDM), a device that measures respirable coal dust levels and provides readings instantaneously. However, the data may be affected by particles of harmless rock dust, thus potentially providing false positive readings. 'We need to make sure that the results from the CPDM are accurate, and that's what's lacking today,'...
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