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That msha issued. in one case it was $70,000 and in another case it was over $60,000 for two ventilation violations recently in january. so there's the financial consequence of the penalty and then there's the consequence of not producing coal. so that -- there is that stick there, but as far as just shutting down a mine for a month saying that's the penalty for all these violations, msha can't do that. let's leave it there. maybe that's something that needs to be revisited. >> ellen, thank you. we'll take a break and we're back in a moment. you're in the cnn "newsroom." ♪ take off your glov...

Ventilation problems. >> correct. >> problems that could lead to the kind of buildup of methane gas, correct? >> correct. so talk us to about those violations, which are very serious violations and then the way a company can sort of kick the can through the appeals process. >> well, the company can appeal msha's citation, but the bottom line is they still have to correct the condition for which they were cited and they have to correct it in the amount of time that msha gives them to correct it. so when i was looking through the ventilation violations, most of them were corrected the same day w...

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