Sentences with phrase «of coal mining»

Or, in this area with a long history of coal mining, are structures associated with past or present mining activity the main pathway?

Is this due to the huge financial influence of the coal mining industry?

The number of tons of coal mined increased by 85 percent, but the number of miners fell by half.

The number of coal mining jobs have been on a steady and steep decline over the last 30 years.

In addition to the underground fires, there are also 93 known surface coal fires, some of them in huge waste piles created during the process of coal mining.

My husband's line of work has turned out to be more of a coal mine, and we have had some very lean years.

The question of timing of coal mines is considered crucial by both project developers and environmentalists.

The remainder of the article is given to the hazardous nature of coal mining.

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which up to 800 feet, sometimes more, of densely forested mountaintops are literally blown up to reach thin coal seams.

The House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources recently hosted a hearing in West Virginia to discuss the impact of coal mining regulations in Appalachia.

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining where entire mountains are literally blown up — devastating communities throughout Appalachia, polluting drinking water and destroying rivers.

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The area experienced a population boom in the 1800s because of the rise of coal mining in the nearby Beaver Meadows.

To change our earlier analogy, today we are like men coming out of a coal mine who suddenly begin to hear the rock rumbling, but who have also begun to see a little square of light at the end of the tunnel.

The result, according to BLM, would be the same amount of coal mined, the same amount of coal burned, and the same amount of carbon pollution emitted from coal - fired power plants.

The American Lung Association supports measures to improve the health and safety of coal mine workers, and the communities where they live, including protection from harmful air pollutants.

Title: Wildflowers and Train Whistles: Stories of a Coal Mining Family Author: Lillian «Sissy Crone» Frazer Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 978 -1-5462-2656-7 Pages: 128 Genre: Memoir, Non-Fiction

Musicians have a long history of working for social change, whether it's Bono and Albert Schweitzer working on behalf of Africa's poor, Aunt Molly Jackson working on behalf of coal mining families, Pablo Casals working to defeat the Fascists in Spain, or Haydn writing the Farewell Symphony to secure better working conditions for Prince Esterhazy's servants.

The U.S. Forest Service calculated the social cost of coal mining which includes negative impacts to human health, property damages from increased flood risk, and the overall destruction of the environment.

Europe Beyond Coal is an alliance of civil society groups working to catalyse the closures of coal mines and power plants, prevent the building of any new coal projects and hasten the just transition to clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Yet another possibility is that it is a result of the coal mines being nationalized in 1947.

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.

SINGRAULI, India — Here at the foot of a mountain of coal mining debris live 150 people in one of the most polluted places on Earth.

As he details his experiences, his winsome descriptions of fresh salt air and the light shining on the sea stand in sharp contrast to the confined darkness of the coal mine where his father works.

On June 1, 2015, Bezdek testified on behalf of the coal mining company Peabody Energy at a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing, where he went on the record stating that:

Despite growing a health and human rights crisis, the troubling judicial move comes on the heels of the coal mining industry's spring ritual of EPA bashing, including a recent pillory of EPA administration chief Lisa Jackson by big coal - booster US Rep. Hal Rogers (R - KY), and the insidiously untrue mantra that mountaintop removal permits «have slowed to a trickle.»

In the wake of a string of coal mine disasters nationwide (e.g. Yunnan, Heilonjiang and Henan), Shanxi province announced that it plans to improve mining safety and half the number of mines in its province from 2,840 to 1,414 by 2010.

We've just published a new study «Banking on Coal,» which shows that Deutsche Bank is the world's 5th largest financier of coal mines.

Despite this, the U.S. government has a long history of giving away our public land to coal companies — so much that today, 40 percent of the coal mined in the United States belongs to taxpayers.

Despite the claims that our energy mix can't function without it, everyday there is news of the closing of coal mines, oil companies moving out of projects, and increased uptake of renewable energy.

Margaret River grape growers might hate the idea of a coal mine in their backyard, but unless the outlook for Australian wine improves they might have to change their minds.

The WMP had a face value of about $ 500 million, and was supposed to fund the purchase of coal mines in Shanxi province.

Two - thirds of coal mining is in Queensland.

The initial stance was to generate discussion in regards to the negative impacts associated with areas of interest outside of coal mining, specifically those that will worsen once coal mining subsides.

So, while coal mining is obviously a negative environmentally, the elimination of coal mining may be nearly as bad (if not worse) environmentally, and will definitely be worse from an economic standpoint.

For those not aware, fly - ash is a biproduct of coal mining that is used as a substitute for cement in concrete mixes.

This is because the seat contains a significant Tory voting rural area on the edge of the Peak District, and because the last remnants of coal mining have now been gone for 30 years (the last coal mine in the constituency closed in 1988).

Dear EarthTalk: I understand that mountaintop removal as a way of coal mining is incredibly destructive.

Similar emissions are caused by the iron, aluminum, and copper mines needed to produce material for renewable systems, Hertwich noted, but the massive scale of coal mining makes its emissions much more significant by comparison.

Nor does she ignore the controversial subjects, such as the question of coal mining in national parks, or culling of elephants, buffalo, hippo and impala in Kruger.

As Tennessee coal mining region resident Ann League says: «The impacts of coal mining abuse do not stop at a mountain's edge.»

The map above shows locations of coal mines and plants as of 1997, with nearly 1,400 active operations, while the map below illustrates the top five coal producing states in the United States.

For many years, better exposure controls have reduced the risk of coal mining, but unfortunately, the problem is coming back, probably due to inadequate exposure control in many small mining operations, Dr. Harber explains.

Yenakiieve is an important regional center of coal mining, metallurgy, chemical production and manufacturing.

The two accidents of the title are a coal mine kerfluffle that causes several deaths and the disappearance of the son of coal mine owner Bill (Josh Lucas).

The first trailer has debuted for writer - director Adriana Trigiani's upcoming romantic comedy Big Stone Gap which stars Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson and Whoopi Goldberg.Watch it below after the official synopsis... Based on her best - selling novel of the same name, writer / director Adriana Trigiani brings the story of a coal mining town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains -LSB-...]

40 year - old Longhua worker Wu Songtao and co-worker Wang Fuxiang stand at the bottom of their coal mine in Dalianhe.

Also, Amos is living with his father who is paying the health price for a lifetime of coal mining.