Defense of a leading specialty chemical manufacturer against medical monitoring claims brought
by coal workers allegedly exposed to polyacrylamide
Not exact matches
But the real level of unemployment or underemployment is masked
by the fact that the official data does not include China «s 277 million migrant
workers, such as Zhang Sihu and his wife from Bianqiang in Yulin, a region rich in
coal, oil and natural gas in northwestern Shaanxi province.
The Task Force is due to report back to McKenna
by the end of this year, after engaging with
workers and communities affected
by the
coal phaseout.
Surrounded
by coal industry
workers, donned in khaki pants and polo shirts, President Trump signed an executive order in March pulling the plug on his predecessor's plan to close hundreds of
coal - fired power plants to reduce carbon emissions.
This total does not include indirect employment -
workers who are not directly employed in the
coal industry, but whose jobs are supported
by that industry.
It is entirely possible that thousands - even tens of thousands - of
workers are indirectly supported entirely
by the
coal industry.
Inside,
workers shovel
coal into the red - hot, glowing furnaces, surrounded
by the deafening noise.
When the
coal company announces a lower pay rate, a strike is called
by United Mine
Worker Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper).
But
coal is not «cheap» for the Appalachian communities destroyed
by mountaintop removal (see appvoices.org), nor for the miners killed or sickened because
worker safety would be too costly for mine owners, nor for the areas made permanently dead from the mining practices, nor for the children poisoned
by the toxic fumes of even the cleanest - burning
coal plants, not to mention the entire planet, every species, every community, every neighborhood being damaged and degraded
by the global warming
coal burning causes.
When your friendly CC scientist informs you that your are scheduled to freeze to death in your home for the crime of the greed perpetrated
by your ancestors, take solace in the likelihood that the moderately paid overworked burgeoning middle class
worker in the developing economies couldn't care a rat's because he's too busy raising a family and renovating his 2nd investment residence from wood heating into
coal stove retro.
In exchange for the economic losses
coal communities will suffer through the «green economy she envisions,» the WSJ says her «programs are a mix of federal support to rebuild
coal communities and aid to
workers affected
by the shifting energy economy.»
Contract
workers are employed
by the many businesses that serve the
coal industry, from welders to reclamation experts.
Rising Tide North America, a loose - knit group of students and
workers for nonprofit organizations, posed as phony public relations officials and targeted energy reporters around the world on Monday with e-mails and telephone calls claiming that a legitimate group of 33 businesses and environmental groups, the United States Climate Action Partnership, had agreed to slash emissions, blamed for warming the earth,
by 90 percent
by 2050 and had called for a moratorium on new
coal plants, Reuters reports.
In terms of community impact, BNP has been directly involved in the funding of a four giga - watt
coal power plant in India, the Tata Mundra plant, which affects the livelihood of thousands of fish
workers by dumping gallons and gallons of warm water from the plant into the naturally colder water of the coastal area.
We also call on Governor Deval Patrick and the legislature to pass the Clean Energy Commonwealth Bill (HB 2935), which would create a community empowerment fund to assist communities and
workers by protecting the local tax base and providing
worker assistance and retraining opportunities when a
coal plant retires.
Here's our quick, non-technical summary:
COAL is
by far the worst in terms of greenhouse gases, mercury and other conventional emissions, mining's impact, dangers to
workers, and the industry's power on elected officials and the media.
By the early 20th century,
coal made the United Mine
Workers the largest union in the U.S.. Its battles with mining companies were among the nation's bloodiest.
This approach helps utilities refinance the costs of stranded
coal generation assets and redirect savings toward cheaper renewable energy to replace generation capacity, while directing funds to communities or
workers affected
by coal closures.
But $ 20 million of that will go to
workers discharged from
coal mines, $ 25 million to the Appalachian communities effected, $ 6 million to economically distressed communities, and roughly $ 5 million for «brownfield» studies in communities affected
by the retirement of
coal - fired plants.
Amid worsening economic conditions in the 1970s and 1980s,
coal miners led some of the most dramatic protests as the state imposed martial law, with seven
workers killed
by strike - breaking police in a 1981 massacre at a Silesia mine.
An even bigger improvement would be for governments to provide matching assistance to
workers and communities affected
by shutdowns of, for example, brown
coal power plants.
«Ensuring public health benefits are realized
by communities neighboring
coal plants, and that
worker transition assistance reaches
coal - dependent areas to help diversify their economies, is crucial.
Those crimes committed
by Massey Energy led not only to the deaths of their own
workers, but to the deaths of countless local residents, such as Joshua Mc Cormick, who died of kidney cancer at age 22 because he was unlucky enough to live downstream from a
coal mine.
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By replacing decades - old coal plants with homegrown, clean and affordable energy sources, AEP can do right by affected workers and their families, and continue clean energy job creation across Indiana and Ohio.&raqu
By replacing decades - old
coal plants with homegrown, clean and affordable energy sources, AEP can do right
by affected workers and their families, and continue clean energy job creation across Indiana and Ohio.&raqu
by affected
workers and their families, and continue clean energy job creation across Indiana and Ohio.»
The most comprehensive peer - reviewed studies done
by independent scientists evaluate air pollution,
worker safety, and all of the other risks in energy production and find that nuclear is safer than
coal, oil, natural gas, and even solar.20, 21
The union movement in B.C. has scored a victory with the decision
by a mining company to halt plans to create an open - pit
coal mine using temporary foreign
workers.
1,137 mine
workers have lost their lives in 919
coal mine accidents according to figures compiled
by DGMS between 2001 and 2011.
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