Sentences with phrase «coal country»

He challenged lawmakers to drink from it and said the stream rule was one of the only safety measures protecting people in coal country.

Much of her work has evolved based on her observations from living in white - dominated communities from coal country to wine country.

The researchers believe their findings have application outside coal country.

It's been two years since the downturn's worst hit coal country, but for the people who live there the wound is tender.

One year, I worked with a particularly strategic Congressional campaign in coal country.

Many are men and women from coal country and oil patch states who built their platforms on promises to encourage the use of fossil fuels.

• In the hard - scrabble coal country of Pennsylvania, employment is hard to come by.

On the agenda was a vote about whether the 26,000 - person county, deep in West Virginia coal country, should join a lawsuit against the nation's three major drug distributors for their role in the region's opioid epidemic.

As we roll through coal country hollows long since tapped out, Bobcats coach Larry Hunter explains how the MAC hopes to model itself after the Atlantic 10, which grew from mid-major shoot into big - time flytrap during the 1990s despite being in the shadow of the Big East.

Slaughter was born Dorothy Louise McIntosh on Aug. 14, 1929, in Appalachian coal country.

Clinton said she had a policy to help coal country benefit from creating renewable energy «because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?»

And as coal investors have fled in droves to invest in more profitable companies and industries, coal workers have been left with pink slips and mortgages on houses with few buyers in blighted coal country.

Clinton's plan for coal country was not to make it easier to mine, but to pump $ 30 billion into the region for economic revitalization to move them away from coal.

I knew then why we used that word, that time's handle for those like them brought be - neath ticking toward Thanksgiving dour squat suns in coal country gone sour

Nellie Bly was a scrappy, hard - driving, ambitious reporter from Pennsylvania coal country who sought out the most sensational news stories, often going undercover to expose social injustice.

From coal museums now powered by solar to coal mining unions calling for a just transition to renewables, we've already seen plenty of examples of coal country getting enthusiastically on - board with the inevitable transition.

«So for example, I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country.

A tenuous stability has fallen on coal country since the downturn, but the reality of being part of the labor force in the Powder River Basin is anything but stable.

During the presidential campaign, Trump said environmental rules had «ravaged coal country,» but a coal industry executive said this week it was unlikely anything Trump does would bring back coal jobs.

- Clean Energy Wire (Germany): Poland's Katowice COP: Next coal country hosting UN climate talks.

The southernmost county in West Virginia, it was at the heart of what was then the state's booming coal country.

As a whole, those counties were about 1 - in - 5 votes cast in the state and are a mix of the factories around Youngstown, the farms down the Ohio River Valley, former coal country in the south and into the Cincinnati suburbs.

Mylan Chief Executive Heather Bresch, who has led the company since 2012, has coal country roots: she is the daughter of U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the second largest coal - producing state in the country.

Under the Capitol's dome and far from depopulated coal country and abandoned steel mills, Democratic members in the Senate and House have been calling for a new renewed focus on winning over blue - collar workers, floating measures on outsourcing and cheap imports and honing a message intended to reinvigorate their base.

Trump «won coal country big, that's for sure,» incoming Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor.

Trump made coal country's plight a major focus of his campaign.

In Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country, underground mine mapping became law by the late - 19th century, although the practice was not observed by all mining operations.

For a while everyone was just praying for stability, and that's what coal country got, said Louise Carter - King, Gillette's mayor.

And though everyone in coal country knew there was a market war coal was losing, witnessing 500 miners at Black Thunder and North Antelope Rochelle disappear on March 31, 2016 left people in a daze.

Watch videos of Bo's testimony and Maria's testimony, filmed by Coal Country filmmaker and West Virginia Filmmaker of the Year Mari - Lynn Evans and filmmaker Jordan Freeman, who even faced Congressional censorship in the filming of these videos.

Aiming to downplay those comments, Clinton held a series of events in coal country last week, pledging to develop an economic support package for struggling residents.

«Wind Manufacturer Offers Job Training in Oil City, Next Stop Coal Country.»

Coal country suffered anyway, losing about one - quarter of its average production between 2015 and 2017 as a result of cheap natural gas competition and indebted companies that fell into bankruptcy.

Coal Country takes us inside modern coal mining.

It will almost certainly become more prominent in the lead - up to COP 24, which will convene in the heart of Polish coal country.

The presumptive Republican nominee has claimed he will revive mining jobs and boost heavy industry in this downtrodden slice of American coal country.

«They're ripping the tops off mountains in West Virginia coal country to feed our insatiable appetite for power.

ACCCE understood that the road to the White House frequently travels through coal country, in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Indiana, Missouri and Colorado.

As miners began blasting away at mountains throughout Appalachian coal country, activists fought back passionately by forming new grassroots groups, taking to the streets, lobbying lawmakers, and speaking out in the press.

Byers thinks that because the Clean Power Plan would cut coal use, repealing it can help coal country.

Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Joshua Pearce noted, «as coal investors have fled in droves to invest in more profitable companies and industries, [Appalachian] coal workers have been left with pink slips and mortgages on houses with few buyers in blighted coal country.»

Clinton was also criticized, however, for saying her policies would «put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business» when talking about her spending plan for coal country.

Coal country went all in for Republican President - elect Donald Trump, and it's very apparent why this happened when you look at the latest federal data on production cuts and mine layoffs.

EIA also reports that U.S. coal production will continue to decline for the remainder of the Obama administration, a fact that offers little hope to the hardworking Americans in coal country who depend on this affordable and reliable energy resource for jobs.»

Virginia has a number of important railroad towns with tracks extending throughout the state, westward into coal country, and northward into the DC metro area.

The Clean Power Plan has been hated by many in coal country since it was finalized in 2015.

I stumbled on this true tale about seven years ago, when Jerry Krenach, a friend and Uncle Wade bandmate, mentioned in passing that a great grandfather of his from coal country in Pennsylvania, John Zalabonich, had died in a mining accident.