Sentences with phrase «coal mining jobs»

We'll be trading away those jobs, tourism, restaurant industry for coal mine jobs for people flown in from out of state.

The number of coal mining jobs have been on a steady and steep decline over the last 30 years.

In theory, that was supposed to mean more coal mining jobs in southwest Virginia.

Voters in coal producing states who believed Trump on the campaign trail when he told them that he would bring back coal mining jobs will be disappointed.

West Virginia coal mining jobs are not coming back.

West Virginia and Kentucky saw coal mine jobs fall 16 percent and 17 percent, respectively.

In 2016, US coal mining jobs hit a historic low of around 75,000 people.

Solar jobs now outnumber coal mining jobs two - to - one and are quickly catching up to jobs in oil and gas extraction, as well.

«We still appreciate coal mining jobs and the investments here in West Virginia, but they've got to be responsible,» said Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, who said his share of the fine — $ 8.9 million — will be spent on stricter enforcement of the laws at the state level.

Wind energy jobs now exceed coal mining jobs (02/01/2009) Wind industry jobs now outnumber those in coal mining, reports CNNMoney.

The facts: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are currently 50,800 coal mining jobs in the United States — only 800 of which have been added since January, when Trump took office.

For example, even though Trump has vowed to bring back coal mining jobs, the coal extraction industry is on its last breaths, primarily as a result of energy market forces.

Coal mining jobs are declining partly because low natural gas prices have cut coal's market share from 50 percent in 2000 to 30 percent in 2016.

There are no coal mining jobs coming back,» Cuban said.

Coal mining jobs have risen in the past year, an anomaly after years of decline.

The consensus seems to be that the industry — and the culture it's engendered — are too entrenched to completely disappear, nor will coal mining jobs, but certainly not enough to sustain the community.

US coal consumption and coal mining jobs are likely to continue declining.

«The stream protection rule is really just a thinly veiled attempt to wipe out coal mining jobs,» Ryan, R - Wis., said.

Coal mining jobs have been in decline since the 1980s.

In the opening sequences, Jimmy loses his coal mining job in West Virginia on a technicality, then promptly goes to Clyde's bar where he gets into a fight with an obnoxious racing team owner named Max Chilblain (an unrecognizable Seth MacFarlane, complete with long curly locks and a British accent).

Compare this with the coal industry, which peaked in jobs creation in the 1980's, before automation and cheap natural gas; coal now employs 160,000 people directly and indirectly (54,000 coal mining jobs).

Trump has also made sweeping promises about bringing back coal mining jobs.

By comparison, the latest available figures from the Energy Information Administration show that the U.S. had a total of about 75,000 coal mining jobs in 2014, of which about 3,000 were in Ohio.

Ironically, while the coal industry and coal - state politicians have accused the Obama administration of waging a «war on coal,» coal mining jobs have increased under the Obama Administration as compared to the George W. Bush administration.