Sentences with phrase «fewer coal workers»

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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.

U.S. coal production hit its lowest level in 40 years in 2016, and the size of the coal mining work force has been cut nearly in half, to stand at just 77,000 workers (roughly the employee size of Delta Airlines or Whole Foods), spread out over a few dozen companies.

It is like throwing a few extra coals on the fire to keep those workers happy.

Different from traditional underground coal mining, mountaintop removal is highly mechanized and thus employs fewer workers.