Spadaro

Since 2004, Spadaro has served as an independent mine safety & health and environmental expert.

Jeff Biggers: His Eyes Are on the Spadaro: Coalfields Need Jack Back at MSHA or OSM 2009

With nearly 40 years of experience as a mine safety engineer and expert, Spadaro is one of those very rare government regulators who is revered alike by miners and coalfield citizens for his meticulous commitment to safety, health and environmental standards in the coalfields.

Jeff Biggers: His Eyes Are on the Spadaro: Coalfields Need Jack Back at MSHA or OSM 2009

In 2006, Spadaro received the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award for his significant contributions to the protection and enhancement of constitutional rights.

Jeff Biggers: His Eyes Are on the Spadaro: Coalfields Need Jack Back at MSHA or OSM 2009

In accepting the Jenco Foundation Award for his long-time commitment to the Appalachian region in 2004, Spadaro looked back at his career beginnings:

Jeff Biggers: His Eyes Are on the Spadaro: Coalfields Need Jack Back at MSHA or OSM 2009

When Spadaro blew the whistle on the subsequent downplayed investigation reports and watered-down enforcement actions by the incoming Bush administration appointees, he found himself locked out of his office.

Jeff Biggers: His Eyes Are on the Spadaro: Coalfields Need Jack Back at MSHA or OSM 2009

Fuel-cycle analyses have typically generated ‘total cost’ figures in terms of m$ ($0.001) or mECU per kilowatt-hour, with recent (post-1990) European and U.S. estimates ranging from 0. 016-80 m$ per kilowatt-hour for coal and from 0. 002-23 m$ per kilowatt-hour for nuclear (Rabl and Spadaro, 2000).

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Source: Spadaro and Rabl, 1998; Spadaro and others,

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Some studies, particularly those focusing on operation of energy systems, suggest that these solar technologies confer negligible human health and ecological risks (Rabl and Spadaro, 2000).

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Recent studies in Europe have shown that health impacts dominate the external social costs of pollution, and estimate that the costs of health impacts due to fine particle air pollution are especially high (Rabl and Spadaro, 2000; Spadaro and Rabl, 1998; Spadaro and others, 1998; Krewitt and others, 1999).

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Health effects and global warming dominate conventional coal technologies (Rabl and Spadaro, 2000).

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