Sentences with phrase «put coal miners»

And at the same time, he said he's going to increase hydraulic fracturing, which is the main reason that prices have gone down for natural gas and that's what put coal miners out of work,» Sandalow said.

Given aging coal plants and the long, steady decline of the industry, putting coal miners to work in less - hazardous jobs seems both practical and appealing.

They're putting coal miners out of work all based on a 17 - year history that doesn't exist.»

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The defeat is a setback for the president, who vowed on the campaign trail to revive the battered coal industry and put miners back to work.

The $ 340 million in annual federal tax subsidies that US coal companies receive is not putting more miners to work.

Clinton said she had a policy to help coal country benefit from creating renewable energy «because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?»

Amy Schumer put her freshly - forged Hollywood connections to good use last night in a biting sketch that points out just how much of the industry's female talent is wasted on barely - there roles like concerned wife of sniper or concerned wife of trapped coal miner.

8:05 am — IFC — Harlan County, U.S.A. Often considered one of the finest documentaries ever put on film, Barbara Kopple's film documents a 1973 coal miner's strike in Kentucky which lasted over a year.

He takes characters from wildly different social strata - a slave - dealing capitalist, an abolitionist lawyer, a light - starved coal miner, a fiddler escaped from prison - and puts them under a microscope to expose the subtle workings of their minds and morals.

Many of the coal miners in my part of northern England kept greyhounds and whippets, and they put linseed oil in their food to make their coats shine — we call it flax seed oil today — the latest pet food industry «discovery» additive to sickening dry dog food, sixty years later.

Since they were presumably going to operate as base load as opposed to peaker power, it's likely they were intending to sign long term contracts so that their incremental addition to the demand for coal would be absorbed not by creating an additional demand on the spot market but by identifying a fixed source with a standing order and putting a few American miners to work on a full - time basis.

When Hillary stands in front of a crowd of people during her campain and says with a big smile on her face «We are going to put a lot of coal companies out of business and coal miners out of work.»

Because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?

The march follows the route of thousands of coal miners in what became the historic Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 — the largest class warfare armed confrontation in U.S. labor history, when miners battled police and strikebreakers backed by the coal operators for five days seeking to unionize the coalfields, until the President ordered the U.S. Army to put down the insurrection.

In 2008, needing union votes for his election, Obozo, addressing a crowd of miners in W. Va. said: «We put a man on the moon in nine years in the 1960s, so don't tell me we can't develop clean coal technology.»

«I can not believe that my own government would put the profits of coal miners over the heritage of us all.»

While Trump's rolling back a policy that may have loomed over coal producers in coming decades, it's going to take more to overcome market forces and raise demand for the fossil fuel to a level that'll put miners back to work, coal executives and analysts say.

The former U.S. secretary of state and New York senator told CNN in March, «We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.»