On March 25, 1947, the Centralia Coal Company's No. 5 mine in Centralia, Illinois exploded, killing 111 workers. This disaster, caused by extremely unsafe working conditions from employers utterly indifferent.
On March 22, 1914, Mary "Mother" Jones was arrested on a train in southern Colorado for her work in fighting for the coal miners on strike that area. This was.
Thanks to an unfortunate combination of factors, Maryland has elected a Republican governor. They are already getting what they asked for. Larry Hogan has already withdrawn from regulations of phosphorous.
Zach Colman's longish piece is good for getting at the real reasons behind coal's decline in West Virginia. The people of that state want to blame Obama. And there's no.
The coal industry has never cared about keeping workers alive. It still doesn't. And even when the companies are fined for their horrible workplace safety, some just refuse to pay,.
Ken Ward has an excellent piece on the media's complicity in the War on Coal narrative to describe the decline of coal jobs in Appalachia. In short, blame it on.
Last week, I gave a talk at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, titled "Resistance in the Pennsylvania Coal Country: Past and Present," although in reality, I talked more broadly about Appalachia.
Coal billionaires are the best people: Coal mines owned by billionaire James Justice II have been cited for more than 250 environmental violations in five states with unpaid penalties worth.
