Sentences with phrase «of coal mining jobs»

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The facts: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are currently 50,800 coal mining jobs in the United States — only 800 of which have been added since January, when Trump took office.

Certainly, the states that have long relied on coal and mining jobs for economic stability will benefit from the end of Obama - era regulations.

He added that «many of the jobs in coal facilities and mines are high - paying jobs.

BHP Billiton said on Thursday jobs could go at its Australian coal mines as the company faces a deteriorating market, the latest sign of global miners scaling back operations due to slowing industrial activity in China.

In 2016, US coal mining jobs hit a historic low of around 75,000 people.

Mr Stanyer also highlighted the «major impact» of industrial decline over several decades, which had seen job losses in pottery and coal mining and a switch to service industries.

Imagine a man or woman being so arrogant, and selfish, that they'd take a job driving a CO2 belching truck, or dig for coal in a mine, or fish for salmon in the ocean, or fly a CO2 belching airliner, or flip beef patties that came from CH4 exhausting cows, or teaching a classroom of students all of whom belch CO2 and exhaust CH4 and whom will have offspring that produces even more of those evil gases, or working as a climate scientist in an office heated by CO2 belching FFs and occasionally traveling around the world by CO2 belching airliner — all the while using computers made from FFs and powered by CO2 belching FF power plants, or working as a Senator from Tennessee who was President of the USA for a few hours and who travels all over the world in CO2 belching airliners, or one of the millions of people who mine, process, manufacture and transport every product you have ever seen in your life and all the ones you haven't seen as well.

The participants voiced a wide range of concerns, from the impact of hydroelectric dams on American Indian populations to the E.P.A.'s review of mountaintop removal coal mining permits to the longevity of a green jobs recovery.

We wouldn't have to close any polluting plants, nobody would have to lose their jobs in the coal mines, and we could go on getting half of our energy supply from the black

Proponents argue that the Otter Creek coal mine, which would be one of the largest strip mines in the West, is a huge economic development opportunity with the potential to create jobs and revenue for the state of Montana.

Maybe put some of it into citizens pockets directly, spend some on job creating industries rather than on old industries that are cutting staff (coal mining for example), maybe a dozen other things that looked impossible before you decided to change your spending patterns.

EPA conducts illegal experiments on humans, to justify regulations that are killing thousands of coal mining and utility jobs.)

Only 0.3 % of Australian jobs are in coal mining.

We'll be trading away those jobs, tourism, restaurant industry for coal mine jobs for people flown in from out of state.

Despite coal industry claims that coal mining creates lots of jobs, the truth is that coal mining employment has been declining for decades, due to increased use of machinery instead of manpower.

«You're essentially condemning a lot of unemployed people to a much lower standard of living since in these [coal - producing] regions there are no readily available jobs that can offer salaries that compete with a coal mine,» he added.

While this is a small number compared with the number of jobs that have been lost due to the war on coal, it is important to the communities located near the mine.

Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.

He was exultant at the passage of a bill in March to guide expansion of the country's domestic coal - mining industry, saying it would boost the economy and create thousands of new jobs.

Which is more «fundamental» to a guy trying to raise a family in eastern Kentucky: a possible three - inch rise in sea levels at some indeterminable point in the future, or the fact that coal mines are closing and he's out of a job?»

He explained that there are roughly 115,000 jobs in Poland's coal mines today, and those workers are all part of strong unions.

The presumptive Republican nominee has claimed he will revive mining jobs and boost heavy industry in this downtrodden slice of American coal country.

It's the reckless mismanagement of the coal industry by CEOs, many of whom are more interested in skirting regulations and scoring political points than in maintaining jobs, modernizing their technology, or keeping their mines safe.

By comparison, the latest available figures from the Energy Information Administration show that the U.S. had a total of about 75,000 coal mining jobs in 2014, of which about 3,000 were in Ohio.

While Stilley characterized the delay in approved mining permits as «unilateral and unjustifiable regulatory actions,» Mackell echoed Rep. Capito in accusing the Obama Administration of declaring a «War on Coal» that is largely responsible for the loss of jobs across Appalachia.

The stakes are high, particularly in view of the Obama EPA's war on coal mining, coal - fired power plants, businesses and industries that require reliable, affordable electricity — and families, communities and entire states whose jobs, health and welfare will suffer under this anti-fossil fuel agenda.

For example, even though Trump has vowed to bring back coal mining jobs, the coal extraction industry is on its last breaths, primarily as a result of energy market forces.

Ironically, while the coal industry and coal - state politicians have accused the Obama administration of waging a «war on coal,» coal mining jobs have increased under the Obama Administration as compared to the George W. Bush administration.

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.

And even if he could, he can't bring back the jobs because its the coal industry itself that wiped out most of those jobs through productivity gains from «strip mines and machinery,» as Nobel Prize - winning economist Paul Krugman explained in 2014.