Sentences with phrase «u.s. coal miner»

The Obama administration's signature plan to slash carbon emissions from power plants will deal a hefty blow to U.S. coal miners.

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The coal miner has been hurt as the world has turned to more environmentally - friendly energy sources such as natural gas — a trend that has accelerated in the last few years as gas prices have come down substantially due to surging supply from the U.S. fracking boom.

A Donald Trump presidency, others say, should be a windfall for coal miners, small - cap U.S. companies (because their sales are mostly in the U.S.), and, of course, construction companies that might benefit from a massive government wall - building contract.

CHARLESTON, W. Va., Nov 28 (Reuters)- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hear testimony from coal miners, lobbyists, environmentalists and others on Tuesday at a public meeting in West Virginia on the EPA's proposal to dismantle an Obama - era plan to slash carbon emissions from power plants.

The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Friday to fund the government through April and President Barack Obama promptly signed it into law, after Democrats who had sought more generous healthcare benefits for coal miners stopped delaying action on the measure.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

I achieve this through rendered photolithographs, photographs, and texts of retired coal miners in the Borinage who spoke directly to me with the U.S. elections and coal mining narrative in mind.

In the U.S., a range of legislation and regulation at the federal and state levels governs miner safety, coal mine reclamation, coal plant siting, thermal pollution from coal plant cooling, coal combustion emissions, and disposal of coal waste.

The march follows the route of thousands of coal miners in what became the historic Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 — the largest class warfare armed confrontation in U.S. labor history, when miners battled police and strikebreakers backed by the coal operators for five days seeking to unionize the coalfields, until the President ordered the U.S. Army to put down the insurrection.

Jacobson and Masters also cite statistics from the Centers for Disease Control showing that coal dust kills some 2,000 U.S. mineworkers each year and has cost taxpayers about $ 35 billion in monetary and medical benefits to former miners since 1973.

The former U.S. secretary of state and New York senator told CNN in March, «We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.»

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt holds up a miner's helmet that he was given after speaking with coal miners at the Harvey Mine on April 13th, 2017, in Sycamore, Pennsylvania.

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Burning coal cuts short at least 24,000 lives in the U.S. annually, inflicts catastrophic damage to the landscape and water supplies, and jeopardizes the lives of coal miners.