Sentences with phrase «coal miners»

Suddenly that tough crowd of coal miners fell silent, their mouths dropped open, and they focused to see if they had really heard what they thought they had heard.

Payments from the trust fund go to present and former coal miners in part for medical payments arising from disability from working in the mines.

For coal miners nearing retirement age, a transition plan could make support payments available until they are eligible to receive their pensions.

The expansion of wind and solar jobs is good news, but there is a reason why out - of - work coal miners aren't necessarily cheering.

I requested to meet with coal miners and their families to learn about their work, labor, and history in the region.

In last year's presidential election, small coal towns across the country voted overwhelmingly for the presidential candidate who promised, in no uncertain terms, to put coal miners back to work.

On average, about 2,500 Chinese coal miners die in accidents every year.

The plan also seeks to strengthen the health care and pension plans of more than 100,000 retired coal miners and their families.

The resulting plunge in coal prices has turned into hard times for global coal miners.

Earlier in the week I wrote how Australian coal miners are getting behind renewables, aiming to get ahead of a transition they see as all but inevitable.

They sometimes cover up the massive production of the illegal small coal miners to conceal income from tax sources.

«Exclusive emphasis on a carbon price is a delusion,» he said, adding that the Dutch government paid coal miners for jobs in the chemical industry.

I hope they thank the local coal miners and power industry for keeping the stage lights on during the drama filled play.

Several coal industry and business officials have questioned the administration's approach, saying it will cost coal miners their jobs and could lead to electricity shortages.

Because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?

What they say they don't know is whether they will still be coal miners in a few years.

Given aging coal plants and the long, steady decline of the industry, putting coal miners to work in less - hazardous jobs seems both practical and appealing.

But for Chinese coal miners, that means fewer orders for their products.

This has been bad news for mine owners and for coal miners.

Chinese electricity demand is to Australian coal miners, what the American motorist is to Canadian oil producers.

HINDMAN, Ky. (AP)-- A Kentucky jury has awarded two former coal miners who filed a civil lawsuit claiming defective dust masks led to their debilitating black - lung disease $ 67.5 million in damages.

Every year, air pollution from coal burning kills more Americans prematurely than work as coal miners, Michigan Tech University researchers estimate in a new paper published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

British coal miners used canaries as air quality indicators and early warning systems well into the 1980s.

As a continuation of the artist's explorations of marginalised communities, Mikhail Karikis» sound piece and video collaboration with fellow artist Uriel Orlow centres on a disappearing community of former coal miners in Kent.

And now in recent days, Republicans in the House of Representatives have «inserted language in a budget bill... that would kill a proposed rule to protect coal miners from dust that causes black lung.»

The discussants also picked apart the optimistic assumption about coal miners seamlessly becoming computer programmers, etc., in the model.

Dr. Fosdick was invited to speak to a very hostile and tough group of striking coal miners in West Virginia.

A small group of coal miners on a planet in the middle of nowhere must defend themselves against invading space bugs.

Jeremy Deller's Great Britons: Jeremy Deller guest - edits a special features section highlighting some of his own favourite creatives, including former coal miner turned flamboyant wrestler Adrian Street, boundary - pushing film director Ken Russell and Britain's earliest Stone Age artists, plus portraits of bat - fan Deller's favourite web - winged flying mammals.

Over the years, that combination — a highly efficient generating technology and the ludicrously low price of natural gas — has dethroned «King Coal,» cutting its share of power generation from 53 % in 2000 to 30 % in 2016, and sent a number of coal miners into bankruptcy.

In the mid 1980s, thousands of British coal miners went on strike in reaction to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's vow to rid the U.K. of the National Union of Mineworkers, or NUM.

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.

Overall, China's 90 largest coal miners saw profits fall 97 per cent in 2015 and the sector is planning to lay - off 1.8 million workers across the country.

Pruitt cited «the war on coal» in a speech to Kentucky coal miners Monday, but the Clean Power Plan is about more than energy — it's about clean air and public health.

And at the same time, he said he's going to increase hydraulic fracturing, which is the main reason that prices have gone down for natural gas and that's what put coal miners out of work,» Sandalow said.

President Obama prayed Sunday with the Rev. Billy Graham at Graham's mountaintop home before leaving North Carolina to attend the memorial service for 29 West Virginia coal miners killed in a recent explosion.

By: Simone Liedtke Updated 46 minutes ago The Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) Justice and Peace Commission and Richard Spoor Attorneys say coal miners are the next in line to seek compensation for occupational lung diseases.

«My human resource guy, before we shut down, told us our future in coal, working underground, would depend on the 2012 presidential election,» said Ethan McGrew, a second - generation coal miner who was laid off after Consol Energy shut down a Clay County, W.V., mine in December 2012.

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 unemployed coal miner who confronted Clinton was proud of the voice he was able to provide for West Virginia during its week in the national political spotlight.

The solidarity of the downtrodden is at the center of «Pride,» a feel - good movie based on the true story of a group of British lesbians and gays who helped support striking Welsh coal miners during the darkest days of the Thatcher era.

Tens of thousands of coal miners died at work through the 20th Century.

While a large part of the world still considers homosexuality a crime punishable by sentences as severe as death, Great Britain during the 1980s was divided, with macho organizations like coal miners unmistakably in the camp of homophobes.

From 2007 - 2013, 191 U.S. coal miners lost their lives in mining accidents.

Other Powder River Basin producers, including top US coal miner Peabody Energy, have talked about the potential for a new export facility on the West Coast, with Oregon and Washington being mentioned as the top locations of choice.

For its part, Peabody, the largest U.S. coal miner by volume, won't need another federal coal lease in Wyoming and Montana's Powder River Basin for «approximately a decade at this point,» spokesman Vic Svec said by phone.

At a press conference outside the Capitol on Thursday evening, Schumer, flanked by coal miners wearing work jackets and beards, praised the miners and urged Congress to extend their health benefits for a year.