Why Trump’s rollback of Obama rules won’t do much for coal country

coolbreeze said:
putting miners back to work, putting anyone back to work should be cause for celebration, not ridicule.
Shame on you
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For all his self-proclaimed smarts, trump neglected to talk about mechanization and how it's been changing the coal industry.

"The agency projects that Appalachian and western coal would decline, and all of the increase would come from the Illinois basin, which includes parts of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. Those producers use mechanized mining practices that have reduced the industry’s employment from 250,000 to 75,000 in 40 years.

“Over time, the industry has been able to mine more coal with less workers,” Sanzillo said."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...o-much-for-coal-country/ar-BByZ77Z?li=BBnbcA1
 
Nomad said:
Aside from coal being a dirty and inefficient energy source, coal miners develop lung disease from decades of inhaling coal dust, then cost the state and Federal govts millions of dollars in health care, straining the system even more than it already is, which just compounds the problems related to his expanding it's use.

But since Trump and the Repugnantcans don't give a crap about health care for poor people or whether or not these people can even access it, he's not worried about that anyway.

As long as he can find a group of willing dupes to pander to, he's happy.

Suckers.
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Wonder if trump's going to roll back the Division of Coal Mine Workers' Compensation (DCMWC), aka black lung offices, that help all those men who lost their health due to unsafe mining practices.
 
Milagro said:
The importance of coal.
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christiefan915 said:
Wonder if trump's going to roll back the Division of Coal Mine Workers' Compensation (DCMWC), aka black lung offices, that help all those men who lost their health due to unsafe mining practices.
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Isn't there a large coal industry in Pennsylvania still? The Germans have shown how coal can be burnt far more efficiently, they have built a large number of new power stations.

http://www.power-technology.com/fea...eneration-of-coal-fired-power-plants-4872235/

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Milagro said:
Isn't there a large coal industry in Pennsylvania still? The Germans have shown how coal can be burnt far more efficiently, they have built a large number of new power stations.

http://www.power-technology.com/fea...eneration-of-coal-fired-power-plants-4872235/

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Good article, thanks!. Here is one I just found: America’s first ‘clean coal’ plant is now operational — and another is on the way link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/10/americas-first-clean-coal-plant-is-now-operational-and-another-is-on-the-way/?utm_term=.a1e10e52deda
 
LOL........

They will get jobs back, replacing the illegals in the fields.... rumpf has big plans for them, YUGE!!!
 
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