Sentences with phrase «coal workers»

As some coal companies have faced financial challenges in recent years, we've also seen reports of coal workers being kicked off health care or losing their retirement funds.

The bill would also provide monthly payments to low - and middle - income households and fund job training, early retirement and health care benefits for coal workers.

What these dry government numbers leave out is the effect on coal workers and their families as coal mines close and one major coal company after another files for bankruptcy.

The miners are joined by Italian and black coal workers, and the battles between the company and miners lead to violence and tragedy.

Coal workers recognize the political factors underlying the bleak outlook for the sector in states that rely heavily on it.

If there is to be a war on coal, Obama should put forward policies that would help retrain coal workers to find employment in green jobs or with other cleaner energy sources.

Blevins said when he talks to coal workers in small Texas towns, he tells them to diversify their skillsets in case their local mine or power plant closes.

The Liberals are also launching a task force to come up with ways to help coal workers that will lose their jobs as a result of the decreasing reliance on coal - fired electricity plants.

When a couple of former coal workers launched Bit Source, a software and web developer, in Pikeville in 2015, there was buzz about the region becoming «Silicon Holler.»

The EPA has criticized the Obama administration for never holding a hearing in West Virginia, denying coal workers a chance to comment in person.

«[Trump] said he's going to put coal workers back to work but hasn't told us how.

(It is important to note that both of these numbers are severely limited by the data available, but it can be safely assumed there are far more solar workers in the U.S. today than there were last year — and far fewer coal workers than in 2014.)

She also thanked coal workers «who mined the coal that created the industrial revolution that turned on the lights that fueled the factories, who lost their lives, who were grievously injured, who developed black lung disease.»

One chilly Wednesday morning in March, shortly before Perusich departed for exercise class, he and a group of retired coal workers dubbed the «Rusty Zipper Gang» lingered over mugs of coffee at Alison's Pantry, their laughter rising above the espresso machine's hiss.

The stories gathered here seem varied, from coal workers fearing for their future to immigrants also fearing for their future; on the other hand, these are all stories that journalists have grappled with mightily and in much greater depth over the past year as they try to figure out what the fuck happened, and why.

Coal Workers North of Danton, 2011, gelatin silver print, 8 × 10».

Thousands of coal workers marched in Berlin last month to protest against plans to slap a levy on the oldest and most polluting power plants, which unions say could put 100,000 jobs at risk.

The emissions from coal power plants inflict billions of dollars of health problems and while in the U.S., 47 coal workers died mining coal in 2006, China suffered 100 times as many fatalities — 4,746 in total.

Coal workers simply don't believe that there are any jobs except mining, and the Queensland Labor government will fall if Adani doesn't go ahead.

In Wyoming and West Virginia coal country, the transition to a clean energy economy is moving forward, with coal workers being trained to work on a new wind farm and become solar installers.

In a recent study, Edward Louie and Joshua Pearce argue (PDF) that solar energy growth can, in principle, absorb all U.S. coal workers who will be laid off during the next 15 years.

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.»

Defense of a leading specialty chemical manufacturer against medical monitoring claims brought by coal workers allegedly exposed to polyacrylamide

Twenty million will go to education and retraining coal workers, while the other $ 35 million will support the development of clean energy and energy efficiency projects.

Like many of Hazard's roughly 5,300 citizens, he hails from a long line of coal workers.

There's a solid argument that coal workers could be retained to work in solar jobs.

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.

Based on true events, Matewan tells the tale of a coal workers strike and unionization attempt in a small town in West Virginia in 1920.

Whitten was born in Bessemer, Alabama in 1939, the son of a seamstress and a coal worker.

Instead, they should focus on supporting real, innovative solutions that can bring about tangible, economic development in coal - reliant communities like transforming retired coal plants, retraining coal workers and diversifying the local economy.

The article mentions a study in The Lancet (a highly prestegious medical journal) which states that 25,000 people died of black lung (coal worker's pneumoconiosis) in 2013.