Despite complaints about the Obama administration's "war on coal," employment in the Appalachian mining industry is at a 14- year high, according to new government data and congressional testimony. Congressional allies of the coal industry this week intensified their attack on the administration, with three hearings to collect testimony critical of water protection rules and a proposed effort to streamline the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The Obama administration's own experts estimate their proposal for protecting streams from coal mining would eliminate thousands of jobs and slash production across much of the country, according to a government document obtained by The Associated Press. The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement document says the agency's preferred rules would impose standards for water quality and restrictions on mining methods that would affect the quality or quantity of streams near coal mines. The rules are supposed to replace Bush-era regulations that set up buffer zones around streams and were aimed chiefly at mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.
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HARLAN, Ky. - Jerry Elliott hopes to trade his jail jumpsuit and slippers for a hardhat and work boots when he comes up for parole later this year. Mining is one of the few bright spots in Kentucky's otherwise dismal economy, and with coal prices high, officials have picked an unusual classroom - a county jail - to teach potential miners a dangerous, difficult job.
CHARLESTON, W.V., Feb. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. House of Representatives voted last week to withhold funds from the EPA and the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) for components of guidance or new rules that are continuing the attack on Appalachian coal mining. Specifically, the House approved Rep. Morgan Griffith's (R-VA) amendment that prohibits funding for EPA's unwarranted intrusion into the Corps of Engineers coal mine permitting responsibilities under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Rep. Bill Johnson's (R-OH) amendment that prohibits funding to OSM for development or implementation of a major revision to the 1977 Surface Mining and Reclamation Act under the pretense of creating new stream protection rules. The House also approved Rep. David McKinley's (R-WV)...
FACES of Coal hopes hearing pushes EPA to act on mining permit applications WASHINGTON, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment conducted a second day of hearings on the EPA's regulatory guidance on surface mining and the economic impacts of EPA's regulatory approach in Appalachia, where coal mining jobs are critically important. During the first day of hearings, Subcommittee Chairman Bob Gibbs (R-OH) and other Members of the Committee, on a bipartisan basis, urged a common sense, balanced approach to federal regulation of coal mining activities rather than the heavy-handed federal regulatory overreach that stifles economic growth, threatens jobs, and ignores the proper rulemaking process.
Our hearts go out to the families of the three men who died in a coal mine accident in Gibson County. Our thoughts, as well, are with the families of the six coal miners trapped since a collapse last week in a mine near Huntington, Utah. Coal mining has provided jobs in Southwest Indiana for generations, but despite vast improvements made in industry safety, it remains one of the nation's more hazardous occupations.
A 2004 study conducted by the University of CaliforniaBerkeley noted that measures to curtail greenhouse emissions by 20 percent by 2020 would entail fearsome losses for the old polluting industries: 23,900 jobs in coal mining, 61,400 jobs in oil and gas drilling, 6,300 jobs at oil refineries, and more than 60,000 jobs at electric and natural gas utilities. From the moment the 19th-century British philosopher John Stuart Mill endorsed a "stationary state" economy-i.e. a no-growth system relying on an essentially fixed rate of production- the project of imagining an environmentally friendly economic order has been predicated on the urge to protect a vision of capital-N Nature from the industrial age's gray, ungainly depredations.\n The popular "feebate" mechanism, for example, imposes c...
After consistently adding jobs during the early months of 2011, non-farm jobs in West Virginia dropped by 1,100 between June and September. Coal mining and logging jobs increased by 300 in September, while public sector jobs rose by 1,400.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The Obama administration's own experts estimate their proposal to protect streams from coal mining would eliminate thousands of jobs and slash production across much of the nation, according to a government document obtained by The Associated Press. The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement document says the agency's preferred rules would impose standards for water quality and restrictions on mining methods that would affect the quality or quantity of streams near coal mines. The rules are supposed to replace Bush-era rules that set up buffer zones around streams and were aimed chiefly at mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.
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