Sentences with phrase «cost coal miners»

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.

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Cheap power often means dirty power, and in China, miners draw on low - cost coal and hydroelectric generators.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

Jacobson and Masters also cite statistics from the Centers for Disease Control showing that coal dust kills some 2,000 U.S. mineworkers each year and has cost taxpayers about $ 35 billion in monetary and medical benefits to former miners since 1973.

Coal mines in the UK were shut down amid a historic dispute between the Government and miners, and the declining cost of importing coal from elsewhere against the rising costs of domestic production, not because Britain had run out of cCoal mines in the UK were shut down amid a historic dispute between the Government and miners, and the declining cost of importing coal from elsewhere against the rising costs of domestic production, not because Britain had run out of ccoal from elsewhere against the rising costs of domestic production, not because Britain had run out of coalcoal.

These machines can cost up to $ 100 million, but are favored by coal companies because they displace the need for hundreds of miners.