Coal Mines Still Struggling With Safety Year After Sago

The disaster that launched a nationwide movement for safety upgrades in the coal mining industry is a year old today, yet getting life-saving equipment in the hands of miners has proven more difficult than many expected. Debate still is raging among regulators, the mines and unions over how to respond to the Jan. 2, 2006, methane gas explosion that killed 12 men at the Sago Mine in West Virginia. They're also debating just when the technology will catch up with a series of sweeping congressional reforms passed as The MINER Act months after the explosion. "There's not a day that goes by...