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Stickler departs as MSHA chief

posted on Jan 21, 2009 10:19PM

dailypress.com

Stickler departs as MSHA chief

By the Associated Press

January 21, 2009

CHARLESTON, W.Va.

Former President George Bush's head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration has left the agency.

Spokeswoman Amy Louviere confirmed Wednesday that director Richard Stickler departed Friday. She says longtime MSHA official Michael Davis is running the agency until a new director is named.

Bush appointed Stickler to head MSHA in October 2006 despite the objections of Senate Democrats and the United Mine Workers labor union.

Stickler, a native West Virginian, oversaw a flurry of new regulations covering rescue teams, safety equipment and other changes mandated by Congress after three high-profile fatal accidents in West Virginia and Kentucky in 2006.