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Even in Bankruptcy, Coal Companies Can’t Stop Selling Out Workers

Leave a Comment / Coal Mining / By max cyril

After key environmental protections were rolled back by the executive order of President Donald Trump in March 2017—including the Obama-era Clean Power Plan—coal magnate Robert E. Murray cheered the news. “I think it’s wonderful, not just for the United States coal industry, our miners and their families, but it’s wonderful for America,” said Murray, then-CEO of …

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The Just Transition for Coal Workers Can Start Now. Colorado Is Showing How.

Leave a Comment / Coal Mining / By max cyril

This past May, Colorado’s Democratic governor Jared Polis signed a series of new environmental bills into law, with the enthusiastic backing of the state’s labor movement. Legislation ranged from expanding community solar gardens to establishing a “Just Transition” office for coal-dependent communities. Organized labor in Colorado hasn’t always been an ally in the fight against climate …

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Kentucky lawmakers put decisions on black lung treatments in hands of industry-paid doctors

Leave a Comment / Coal Mining / By max cyril

The political assault on science in the age of Trump has reached a point where even medical specialties are rising up in protest. Radiologists are fighting back against a new Kentucky law that excludes them from the black lung claims process for coal miners in the state. Under the new legislation, if a miner files a …

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Trump’s rollback of environmental rules will fail to bring back coal, report says

Leave a Comment / Coal Mining / By max cyril

“Can Coal Make a Comeback?” asks a new report by Columbia University researchers. Spoiler alert: In its first few pages, the report states that President Donald Trump will almost certainly fail to bring jobs back to coal country or dramatically boost coal production. Rolling back environmental regulations, as the Trump administration frantically sought to do during its …

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Even in Bankruptcy, Coal Companies Can’t Stop Selling Out Workers

The Just Transition for Coal Workers Can Start Now. Colorado Is Showing How.

Kentucky lawmakers put decisions on black lung treatments in hands of industry-paid doctors

Trump’s rollback of environmental rules will fail to bring back coal, report says

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