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Nov 2 2022CHARLESTON AP — A federal judge ruled this week that one of West Virginia Gov Jim Justice s businesses owes more than $ million to a Swiss company for undelivered coal
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Nov 7 2022The study conducted by the West Virginia University Bureau for Business and Economics Research BBER shows that the mining industry alone spends more than $ billion on wages nationally and coal operators generated approximately $ billion in economic activity in 2024
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Oct 17 2022Hatfield a retired coal miner raised two boys in the house a few miles from the West Virginia border and added on five rooms as his family grew But the red water that ran off from
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No not related to the author below as far as I know but another concerned citizen picketing against mountaintop removal coal mining One of our faithful readers and supporters WV Outpost recently wrote an interesting powerful and moving article on some of her and her family s experiences living in the heart of coal is living in West Virginia and her and her husband have
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Breaking News Ramaco Reports Impressive Numbers Nov 10 2024 The West Virginia Coal Hall of Fame a joint initiative between the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute and the West Virginia Coal Association and housed at the WVU Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
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7 days agoA coal preparation plant in Yolyn West Virginia is pictured Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images Iron Senergy employs approximately 700 union workers according to Thompson
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May 24 2021The coal mine operator ERP Environmental Fund Inc which owns over 100 in state coal mines was financially drowning Rather than allowing the company to go bankrupt leaving cleanup costs
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Sep 4 2022CHARLESTON WV WOWK A West Virginia coal miner has died according to West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin s Office A statement from the senator s office identified the miner as Kristofer Ball 34 of Chapmanville West Virginia The incident happened at Kanawha Eagle Mining Coalburg Tunnel Mine on Thursday evening Sept 1 2024 according to Manchin s […]
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May 12 2022Coal mines are going through a hiring shortage Global demand for coal increased by 6% last year and could rise more this year In Benwood West Virginia money comes in as coal goes
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Monongah West Virginia Mining Disaster On December 6 1907 the Fairmont Coal Company s interconnected Number 6 and 8 mines at Monongah exploded killing at least 361 miners the worst coal mining disaster in history People could feel the impacts from the explosions as far as eight miles away
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Virginia s coal industry itself has also changed In 1980 Virginia had over 800 licensed mines By 2024 the number of Virginia licensed mines had declined by more than 50 percent to 328 only 204 of which produced marketable coal Only those mining firms able to achieve improved operating efficiencies have survived this period
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Mar 11 2021Despite its 36 years in existence the PEA only ever completed one project a coal plant near West Virginia University s downtown campus Funded with $129 million in tax free PEA bonds in 1992 the plant was opposed vigorously by WVU faculty and many Morgantown residents
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Coal counties in Appalachia suffer high rates of heart disease obesity smoking diabetes and opioid abuse leading them to have some of the lowest life expectancies in the country West Virginia has the highest rate of drug abuse in the and thousands of residents have died from overdoses in recent years
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Day One of this onslaught locally was March 12 1883 when the first load of coal departed from Pocahontas on the newly arrived Norfolk Western Railroad The Coal Rush began immediately as the demand for high quality low sulfur low smoke coal was insatiable The smokeless burn of this region s coal was particularly valued by the Navy as
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Apr 24 2021The White House Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization also named 25 areas that need help No 1 was southern West Virginia No 3 was
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Monongah West Virginia Mining Disaster On December 6 1907 the Fairmont Coal Company s interconnected Number 6 and 8 mines at Monongah exploded killing 361 miners the worst coal mining disaster in history People could feel the impacts from the explosions as far as eight miles away
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May 6 2022May 6 2024 Marshall county produced roughly million short tons of coal in 2024 making this the largest coal producing county in West Virginia Logan and Ohio counties ranked
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May 2 2022West Virginia mines produced about 90 million tons of coal in 2024 according to the Office of Miners Safety Health Training That s up from 2024 s 72 million tons the lowest number since 1915 However the state s coal mines employed fewer workers last year than they did in 2024
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West Virginia Coal Back To The Future Modify date is not enabled in Article Configuration The recent announcement that Mylan now Viatris will shutter their Morgantown manufacturing facility and eliminate 1 500 jobs in the process leaves us all with an inexplicable empty feeling and sense of hopelessness
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Oct 27 2022Virginia Coal Mining News Service from EIN News Mining Industry Today Questions 1 202 335 3939 Set Up FREE Account WBOY — University of Kentucky s men s basketball head coach made a shout out to coal miners and Clarksburg West Virginia on Monday John Calipari who has been the Wildcats head coach since 2024 posted
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Sep 30 2021West Virginia s coal powered the nation for years Now many look to a cleaner future For a long time the culture here has been What s good for coal is good for West Virginia
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The coal company erected the memorial atop the old mine as part of an agreement with the dead miners widows who have lobbied testified sued and battled for years for redress from their families losses on that day Among the dead was Megna s father Emilio a section boss Emilio came to America with his family at age 3 from Italy
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Jun 4 2021CHARLESTON AP — A West Virginia coal miner was killed Thursday the second coal death in the state in two days Gov Jim Justice said Nicholas David Adkins 43 of Racine a section
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Each and every year West Virginians are killed and injured in coal mine accidents like these As of October 2024 6 West Virginia coal miners had been killed in 2024 7 in 2024 6 in 2024 and 35 in 2024 about 200 deaths between 1996 and present day The number of non fatal injuries is much higher in the thousands
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Aug 25 2022Monday 20 June 2024 10 45 Bens Creek Group plc has provided an updated reserve base evaluation undertaken by Marshall Miller Associates Inc of its coal properties located primarily in Mingo County West Virginia USA David J Stetson to open The Bluefield Coal Mining Show 2024 Tuesday 14 June 2024 10 30
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Nov 3 2024 Coal supplies have tightened inventories are low and the price of natural gas has skyrocketed said Hamilton This has given coal an advantage over competing fuels Hamilton noted that coal production in West Virginia is 20 percent ahead of 2024 output and the industry expects to finish the year strong Read more
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Apr 6 2022Michelle Lewis Apr 6 2024 — 11 25 am PT West Virginia s largest solar farm will sit on the site of the 5 800 acre Hobet Mine one of the state s largest former coal mines which went
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Coal mining employment has been in steady decline for many decades now throughout the Since 1950 mining jobs have declined by 88 percent and today only about 14 000 still work
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Nov 7 2022CHARLESTON AP — A federal judge ruled this week that one of West Virginia Gov Jim Justice s businesses owes more than $ million to a Swiss company for undelivered coal
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Tags the battle of blair mountain was the largest labor uprising in united states history and the largest armed uprising since the american civil war the conflict occurred in logan county west virginia as part of the coal wars a series of early 20th century labor disputes in appalachia up to 100 people were killed and many more arrested the united mine workers saw major declines in
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