Sentences with phrase «coal industry workers»

As an example of anticipated displacement, she mentioned coal industry workers who will lose their jobs due to restrictions on coal power.

As part of the transition to a clean energy future, the American Lung Association supports providing assistance to retrain coal industry workers and to help impacted communities transition to other economic opportunities.

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.

Not exact matches

The rest will go to programs to ease the transition away from coal for communities and workers dependent on that industry, as well as to innovation programs and energy efficiency measures.

Additionally the construction jobs themselves will put overall pressure on wages, and workers in otherwise stranded industries, like coal, may find new work in new fields.

The U.S. solar industry employs more than 260,000 workers - about five times more than the coal industry - with the vast majority involved in installation rather than panel manufacturing.

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.

Workers in any declining industry can learn from the coal industry.

Businesses in tangential industries may also want to consider retraining their own workers — electric utilities, for example, can retrain their coal - fired power plant workers for positions involving utility - scale solar farms.

As of November 2015, the solar industry employed 208,859 solar workers, which is already larger than the roughly 150,000 jobs remaining in the domestic coal industry.

They also called for the state ownership of extractive industries such as coal, and for worker - management co - determination.

A Fair Work Commission decision to scrap a workplace agreement at a NSW coal terminal sends ripples through the mining industry, with the issue of workers» entitlements tipped to become an election issue.

In an attempt to polish coal's tarnished image, the industry has launched a series of ads and other PR efforts (to the tune of «Jingle Bells»): Frosty the coal man is a jolly happy soul He's abundant here in America and he helps our economy roll Frosty the coal man's getting cleaner every day He's affordable and adorable and helps workers keep their pay Beyond caroling coal available online (isn't a lump of coal at Christmas traditionally a bad thing?)

Oddly, as I pointed out earlier, the Friends of Coal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utilitiCoal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal - fired utilities).

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.

The U.S. civilian labor force totaled 141,730,000 workers in 2005; thus, permanent blue - collar coal industry employees represent 0.12 % of the U.S. workforce.

Cole has won the endorsement of the state Business and Industry Council and the West Virginia Coal Association, while Justice has won the endorsement of the United Mine Workers union and the two state teachers unions.

«You could pension off all the 80,000 workers in the coal industry for a tiny fraction of the medical bills due to burning coal,» says Burton Richter, a Nobel laureate in physics.

Contract workers are employed by the many businesses that serve the coal industry, from welders to reclamation experts.

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.

The socialist states at that time were producing gargantuan amounts of CO2 and other gases implicated in global warming from unfiltered coal - fired power plants and factories; when those unprofitable industries withered, countless thousands of workers went on the dole — but the air got cleaner.

The nation's largest privately held coal company is expected to lay off 1,800 workers Friday as waning demand and cheap natural gas prices pummel the U.S. coal industry.

- As Brad Johnson reported today at ThinkProgress, confirmation that Heartland is working with David Wojick, a U.S. Energy Department contract worker and coal industry consultant, to develop a «Global Warming Curriculum for K - 12 Schools.»

«She did have reason for highlighting the possibility of global warming because the biggest threat to the UK energy security at the time was the stranglehold the Marxist National Union of Mine Workers had on the coal industry.

As the coal industry continues to decline, former fossil fuel workers in Casper, Wyoming are training for new careers with a future as wind technicians.

Rather than care for suffering workers, the coal industry has hired lawyers and doctors to deny Black Lung disease, rather than protecting its workforce and paying for the treatment they need.

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Some audacious proposals have been floated for the U.S. government to simply buy out the entire coal mining industry, shut it down over a number of years and develop a program with transition payments, relocation assistance and job - training for workers losing their jobs.

Coalminer's pneumoconiosis — Affects coal miners and some workers involved in associated industries such as coal transport and storage