Sentences with phrase «for coal workers»

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.

Not exact matches

The rest will go to programs to ease the transition away from coal for communities and workers dependent on that industry, as well as to innovation programs and energy efficiency measures.

People in B.C. also lashed out against that provincial government's support for Chinese - owned HD Mining's plan to use temporary foreign workers at a proposed coal mine in Tumbler Ridge.

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

Businesses in tangential industries may also want to consider retraining their own workers — electric utilities, for example, can retrain their coal - fired power plant workers for positions involving utility - scale solar farms.

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.

And how well did that work for slaves the first 300 years, child labor exploited and coal miners and factory workers suffering horrific working conditions and safety issues in the early 1900's, women still fighting the glass ceiling that exists, etc.?

They also called for the state ownership of extractive industries such as coal, and for worker - management co - determination.

Anglo's Hunter Valley coal mine has been approved for extension, but it is too late for 500 workers made redundant.

Probably far too complicated for this site, but the «costs» entirely disregards long - term costs - pollution, health problems (like coal extraction workers), and, obviously, the trillions in expected expenses from global warming effects, both responding to and trying to mitigate.

And Citigroup Inc. announced in October that it would draw down loans for companies that engage in mountaintop - removal mining — a process in which workers detonate rocks and soil to access coal trapped below, often leaving toxic runoff in bodies of water nearby.

Oddly, as I pointed out earlier, the Friends of Coal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utilitiCoal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal - fired utilities).

«This is and was a memorable moment for the mine workers in Limburg, which forces us to remember the 100 years of coalmining in Europe, the social struggle of the coal miners and to acknowledge the impact the closure of coalmining and the conversion processes afterwards had on our current industrial and social changes and structures,» Hedwig Fijen, Director of Manifesta, told A.i.A. via email.

But coal is not «cheap» for the Appalachian communities destroyed by mountaintop removal (see appvoices.org), nor for the miners killed or sickened because worker safety would be too costly for mine owners, nor for the areas made permanently dead from the mining practices, nor for the children poisoned by the toxic fumes of even the cleanest - burning coal plants, not to mention the entire planet, every species, every community, every neighborhood being damaged and degraded by the global warming coal burning causes.

«You could pension off all the 80,000 workers in the coal industry for a tiny fraction of the medical bills due to burning coal,» says Burton Richter, a Nobel laureate in physics.

When your friendly CC scientist informs you that your are scheduled to freeze to death in your home for the crime of the greed perpetrated by your ancestors, take solace in the likelihood that the moderately paid overworked burgeoning middle class worker in the developing economies couldn't care a rat's because he's too busy raising a family and renovating his 2nd investment residence from wood heating into coal stove retro.

Canada needs to make a formal commitment to phasing out centralized nuclear power and coal stations, and assist in the orderly and just transition for power workers and their communities.

In exchange for the economic losses coal communities will suffer through the «green economy she envisions,» the WSJ says her «programs are a mix of federal support to rebuild coal communities and aid to workers affected by the shifting energy economy.»

Local activists had vigorously lobbied the government for several years to replace the Alinta Energy coal plant in Port Augusta with a thermal solar project, so the contract represents a big win for local workers.

Rising Tide North America, a loose - knit group of students and workers for nonprofit organizations, posed as phony public relations officials and targeted energy reporters around the world on Monday with e-mails and telephone calls claiming that a legitimate group of 33 businesses and environmental groups, the United States Climate Action Partnership, had agreed to slash emissions, blamed for warming the earth, by 90 percent by 2050 and had called for a moratorium on new coal plants, Reuters reports.

Coal plant (and mine if mine mouth plant is selected) workers would be trained for geothermal project development and operation.

For coal generation most of the fatalities are latent fatalities and these occur in the general public, not in the workers.

Smart Poland for looking out for its people and workers» welfare, employing the wonders of cheap, reliable, dispatchable coal - fired power, keeping energy costs down, thus ensuring jobs and wealth remain at home, not shipped off to China or abroad.

We also note that there are tremendous leadership opportunities for these countries to demonstrate that moving beyond oil, coal, and gas — both demand and production — is not only possible, but can be done while protecting workers, communities, and economies.

But $ 20 million of that will go to workers discharged from coal mines, $ 25 million to the Appalachian communities effected, $ 6 million to economically distressed communities, and roughly $ 5 million for «brownfield» studies in communities affected by the retirement of coal - fired plants.

The shift from wood to coal was, especially in its early years, painful for many workers.

Mining, transportation, and combustion of coal contribute to poor air quality and respiratory disease, while the risky nature of mining coal results in death and injury for workers.»

An even bigger improvement would be for governments to provide matching assistance to workers and communities affected by shutdowns of, for example, brown coal power plants.

- As Brad Johnson reported today at ThinkProgress, confirmation that Heartland is working with David Wojick, a U.S. Energy Department contract worker and coal industry consultant, to develop a «Global Warming Curriculum for K - 12 Schools.»

«She did have reason for highlighting the possibility of global warming because the biggest threat to the UK energy security at the time was the stranglehold the Marxist National Union of Mine Workers had on the coal industry.

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As the coal industry continues to decline, former fossil fuel workers in Casper, Wyoming are training for new careers with a future as wind technicians.

Rather than care for suffering workers, the coal industry has hired lawyers and doctors to deny Black Lung disease, rather than protecting its workforce and paying for the treatment they need.

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There is an O&M cost increase of $ 70,000 / year over coal, as a result of the need for an additional yard worker to handle the biomass.

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Illinois coal miners may be in violation of the standards for radiation workers.

Some audacious proposals have been floated for the U.S. government to simply buy out the entire coal mining industry, shut it down over a number of years and develop a program with transition payments, relocation assistance and job - training for workers losing their jobs.

Economic diversification — innovating, persuading companies to relocate and build new facilities, training skilled workers and establishing an adequate supply chain — is a challenging process, and it may not happen fast enough to create jobs for dislocated coal miners.

The challenges for Germany will be accelerating that transition, phasing out coal production, meeting the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement, and ensuring that this movement to clean energy is a just and fair one for the country's many fossil fuel workers.

In a recent decision, Stewart v. Elk Valley Coal Corp, the Supreme Court of Canada («SCC») held that the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal («Tribunal») reasonably concluded that a worker who tested positive for drugs following a workplace accident was terminated because he breached the employer's drug policy and not for discriminatory reasons.

We have built a nationally recognized reputation for success in cases involving coal mine accidents, black lung and other lung diseases and gas explosion injuries, in addition to all other personal injury and workers» compensation claims.

A worker was terminated from his employment with Elk Valley Coal Corporation when he tested positive for cocaine after a loader truck he was operating struck another truck.

Founded in 1887, Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company provided accident insurance for «uninsurable» workers in the sawmills and coal mines around Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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