CNN’s Anderson Cooper talks a lot about transparency.  He focused on transparency troubles while covering the gulf oil spill. Watching the Chilean mine rescue unfold, on October 12th Cooper noted that the Chilean government’s rescue operations have been more transparent than similar responses to mining disasters in the U.S. If the way the Labor Department ignored the FOIA mediator’s office is any gauge, he may have a point. For years, Mine Safety and Health News editor Ellen Smith has been working for the disclosure of a key report about a spill 25 times bigger than the Exxon Valdez oil spill … Continue reading Mining to resolve a dispute, OGIS gets the shaft