Sentences with phrase «with coal workers»

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The Task Force is due to report back to McKenna by the end of this year, after engaging with workers and communities affected by the coal phaseout.

The U.S. solar industry employs more than 260,000 workers - about five times more than the coal industry - with the vast majority involved in installation rather than panel manufacturing.

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.

A Fair Work Commission decision to scrap a workplace agreement at a NSW coal terminal sends ripples through the mining industry, with the issue of workers» entitlements tipped to become an election issue.

[1](Compare this percentage with the 1.89 % of U.S. workers who worked in coal mining alone in 1920.)

Miners drifted in throughout the day and the small bar filled with coal - dusted workers a little after dawn and at day's end: shift change.

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.

The Ex-Im-funded Sasan coal plant and mine in India have resulted in serious environmental harms and the deaths of at least 19 workers due to unsafe working conditions, with a recently disclosed project monitoring report showing six potential additional deaths.

«If PacifiCorp's analysis reveals that, yes, our coal plants are costing families, then we as a state need to work with this utility on how we can continue to be an energy exporter, support workers and create new opportunities in Wyoming,» Connie Wilbert, Sierra Club's Wyoming chapter director, said in a statement.

By the early 20th century, coal made the United Mine Workers the largest union in the U.S.. Its battles with mining companies were among the nation's bloodiest.

Amid worsening economic conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, coal miners led some of the most dramatic protests as the state imposed martial law, with seven workers killed by strike - breaking police in a 1981 massacre at a Silesia mine.

Foremost among them was the critical partnership she forged with the United Mine Workers Union over overweight coal trucks.

- 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.»

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.

Calling Protest Extremism Stifles Legitimate Public Discussion & Action Second, there is the possibility of genuine extremism out there in the broad environmental movement: Blockading a mountaintop removal coal mine or loudly protesting outside one is one thing, specifically threatening workers or mine owners with violence (which to my knowledge has never happened, I only use it as an example), would be another entirely.

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.

«By replacing decades - old coal plants with homegrown, clean and affordable energy sources, AEP can do right by affected workers and their families, and continue clean energy job creation across Indiana and Ohio.»

The April 5, 2010, West Virginia coal mine collapse that killed 29 workers has led to criminal and Senate investigations into whether Massey Energy ignored important coal mine regulations or even tampered with methane monitoring systems.

The union movement in B.C. has scored a victory with the decision by a mining company to halt plans to create an open - pit coal mine using temporary foreign workers.

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.

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Associations of individual - related and job - related risk factors with nonfatal occupational injury in the coal workers of Shanxi Province: a cross-sectional study

From the Chamber's website: «Once Canada's smallest and westernmost city, Cumberland was a bustling coal mining community from 1888 to 1966, with workers streaming in from Europe, China and Japan....