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Obama vows better safety for W. Va. coal miners

Barack Obama

Black ribbons fluttered in the breeze as a homemade pinwheel bearing 29 names turned slowly, lending a splash of color to an otherwise overcast day in southern West Virginia. Here, residents are still coming to grips with the state’s worst mining disaster in more than two decades. Part of that process continued Sunday, when President Obama spoke at a eulogy for the 29 coal miners who died in the accident.

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Carmen Sisson April 25, 2010 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Christian Science Monitor, coal miners, coal mining, disaster, explosion, Obama, safety, Summersville, West Virginia, workplace safety 0
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