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On September 29, 2022, the Senate confirmed the President's nominations of Mary Lu Jordan and Timothy Baker to be Members of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission.  

On August 24, 2022, the Commission issued its decision in Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC, Docket No. LAKE 2019-0023 et al.  

Moshe Z. Marvit currently serves as a Supervisory Attorney-Advisor in FMSHRC’s Pittsburgh field office.  Prior to coming to FMSHRC, he worked in private practice, representing the United Steelworkers, and employees in pension and discrimination matters.  Marvit has also served as a member of the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, the Duquesne University School of Law, the Pennsylvania State Unemployment Compensation Advisory Council, and the Steel Valley Authority.  He received his JD from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he also earned a Certificate in Labor and Employment Law.  He has an M.A. from the University of Chicago, an M.A. from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University.  He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife and son.

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/22/president-biden-announces-key-nominees-22/

On April 5, 2022, the Commission issued its decision in KC Transport, Inc., Docket No. WEVA 2019-0458.

On February 10, 2022, the Commission issued its decision in Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company, Docket No. PENN 2019-0008.   

Timothy (T.J.) Baker is currently the Associate General Counsel of the United Mine Workers of America and has been with the Union since 2018.  From 2012 to 2018, he worked for the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, first as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Administrative Law Judges in Pittsburgh and then as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Commissioners in Washington, D.C.  He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Washington and Lee University School of Law.  At Washington and Lee, he participated in the third-year Black Lung Clinic, seeking to obtain benefits for miners afflicted with occupational lung disease.  Baker is the son of a coal miner.  He lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia with his wife Laura and their children, Lydia and Jon.