Locals in Jennerstown, Pa., are celebrating the grand opening of a coal mine and the estimated 70 jobs it brings. But the broad trends pushing the industry down are likely to ...
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the average number of US coal mine employees decreased by 21.5 percent. Even with the coal drop-off, the President Trump administration is hoping to keep coal. "In other countries, they love their coal," President Trump has said. "Over here, we haven't ...
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The people who actually do dig coal are going to be digging less of it as another coal mine closes. It was announced this past week that a coal mine - the 4 West Mine - in ...
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— President Trump, speech announcing U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate-change agreement, June 1 "Next week we're opening a big coal mine. You know about that. One in Pennsylvania. ...
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In 2016, Trump aggressively embraced coal miners and often featured them at rallies and events. The mining industry represents, ... "You elect this man to Congress and you won't have to lobby him one minute," the head of United Mine Workers of America ...
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President Donald Trump is considering weakening a regulation intended to protect the health of one of the demographics he has often claimed to care most about — America's coal miners. A notice labeled "Regulatory Reform of Existing Standards and Regulations; Retrospective Study of Respirable Coal
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The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. His plans will likely spell disaster on many fronts. In contrast to Trump's claims that coal will "make America great again," it will actually just force the country further behind
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President Donald Trump didn't waste the opportunity to press his pro-coal agenda by mentioning the opening of a new coal mine in Pennsylvania.
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BOBTOWN, Pa. — When Nic Zmija applied for a job at the 4 West coal mine three years ago, he was tantalized by a fat raise and a secure future. Once hired, he was told that someday even his two young sons had jobs waiting for them. "It all sounded good," Mr. Zmija recalled with a tight smile
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Despite many promises from President Trump that he would bring back coal jobs, the industry has only added 500 jobs, or a 1% increase, during his first year in office. And now a coal mine near the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border is due to close, costing 370 of those jobs. The mine is the 4 West
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Free QuoteCoal miner Rodney Osborne was toward the end of a double shift at the Gateway Eagle Mine in West Virginia in June when the 32-year-old was crushed to death by a rotating drill. A subsequent investigation revealed that Osborne, who had been working at the Boone County mine for just five months
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Three coal miners tell CBS News that Trump is their man, but young Republicans in the state are not convinced ... Dave Schrecengost at work in a Pennsylvania coal mine CBS News They will all vote for Donald Trump. "I feel [Hillary a cookie cutter of the ...
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A new coal mine touted by President Trump held its grand opening Thursday in southwestern Pennsylvania. Trump, who mentioned the mine last week in a speech announcing his withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement, recorded a video message for the opening ceremony for Corsa Coal Corporation
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And the same is largely true of those coal mining jobs in Appalachia. Donald Trump tells us that he will bring them back but it's just not going to happen. ...
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Donald Trump's promise to open shuttered coal mines in Appalachia might be as hard to fulfill as getting Mexico to pay for a new wall, analysts suggested. The vow by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee would likely mean turning back regulations on greenhouse gases and perhaps toxic air
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President Trump declared the "mines are starting to open up" across America's beleaguered coal country. While blasting the Paris climate accord as unfair to coal miners, Trump pointed to the "opening of a brand-new mine." It opens soon and he's been invited to attend when it does, the president
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has put the brakes on a regulation blocking coal mining debris from being dumped into nearby streams. Trump called the regulation a "job-killing rule" before he signed a measure to overturn it. Lawmakers from coal-mining states stood close by, including Senate
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The number of mine site inspections is falling and proposed budget cuts at the federal regulator will further erode oversight, a former top official warns ... Trump-era budget cuts will leave the office that oversees the clean-up of the nation's coal mines unable to do its ...
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President Donald Trump touted the opening of a new coal mine in Pennsylvania as evidence that his administration is "putting the miners back to work." But construction of the mine in question began before the 2016 election. And experts say it's not evidence of a ...
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Regulators have almost wiped out risky practice since 2015-16 wave of bankruptcies, but some coal companies still insure themselves Obama-era efforts to stamp out the practice of US coal mining companies insuring their own clean-up costs have been widely successful, a Climate Home News investigation
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Trump Rules Under Trump, Coal Mining Gets New Life on U.S. Lands A business-friendly secretary of the interior has moved to invigorate a struggling industry, ...
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U.S. coal mining companies are worried President Donald Trump's intensifying trade dispute with China could hurt their booming export business, one of the ailing sector's most important lifelines, according to industry players.
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President Trump on Thursday signed legislation ending a key Obama administration coal mining rule. The bill quashes the Office of Surface Mining's Stream Protection Rule, a regulation to protect waterways from coal mining waste that officials finalized in December. The legislation is the second
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