Mine Safety Leader Resigns

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...One state official says the Kentucky Office of Mine Safety had a strong and capable safety advocate in its leader, Johnny Greene. Now Greene is to become the second-ranking mine industry regulator to leave his post in a matter of days. He says he will retire at the end of the year. Carl Campbell, the commissioner of the Department for Natural Resources, was fired from his job last week by Energy and Environment Secretary Len Peters. Peters says he tried to convince Greene to stay on in the job, saying miners couldn't have a stronger or more capable safety advocate.