Sentences with phrase «coal workers died»

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.

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Those crimes committed by Massey Energy led not only to the deaths of their own workers, but to the deaths of countless local residents, such as Joshua Mc Cormick, who died of kidney cancer at age 22 because he was unlucky enough to live downstream from a coal mine.