There are already a large number of coal miners out of business and their employees unemployed for a long time. Hillary Clinton stated what needed to be said.
I am quite confident coal mining communities would welcome far cleaner environments for their families and school children. Hillary Clinton has a vision for their future and I look forward to it, too.
I always thought the EPA never went far enough, actually. The jobs lost in coal mining has nothing to do with wind or solar energy. It is obvious the jobs are gone because of wealth sought by stockholders and owners. It wasn't until President Obama took office did the scale of solar and wind take on a far larger distribution of the energy needed for the USA. Coal mining jobs were long gone by then.
Yes, politicians like Mitch McConnell lie to be elected.
Black lung (click here) is a legal term describing a preventable, occupational lung disease that is contracted by prolonged breathing of coal mine dust. Described by a variety of names, including miner's asthma, silicosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis, and black lung, they are all dust diseases with the same symptoms....
My maternal grandfather died of this lung disease after working in Pennsylvania mines since the age or 9. Yes, that is 9 years old and not 19 years old. He was born 1900 before Child Labor Laws. His parents died of the avian flu in 1918. He supported his brothers and sisters until he married at the age of 23 years old.
The disease is horrible, but, it is not restricted to the coal miners. The soot of coal mining migrates into the COMMUNITY AIR and is a covering on public schools. There is nothing benevolent about coal. It is a heart ache for this country from the beginning of time. The USA is better off leaving it in the ground and expanding far different economics.
To my understanding the EPA has never leveraged fines or charges based on the poor air quality in communities. The Black Lung Disease Fund should have been extended to families of mine workers and other community members such as shop keepers. Such expansion of that fund would require investigation and factual events of lung disease in these communities. A good place to start are the archives of local hospitals. I am sure there are statistics of community members with lung disease. I am very confident when analyzed the statistical difference than the rest of the country without coal mines is stark.
I am quite confident coal mining communities would welcome far cleaner environments for their families and school children. Hillary Clinton has a vision for their future and I look forward to it, too.
I always thought the EPA never went far enough, actually. The jobs lost in coal mining has nothing to do with wind or solar energy. It is obvious the jobs are gone because of wealth sought by stockholders and owners. It wasn't until President Obama took office did the scale of solar and wind take on a far larger distribution of the energy needed for the USA. Coal mining jobs were long gone by then.
Yes, politicians like Mitch McConnell lie to be elected.
My maternal grandfather died of this lung disease after working in Pennsylvania mines since the age or 9. Yes, that is 9 years old and not 19 years old. He was born 1900 before Child Labor Laws. His parents died of the avian flu in 1918. He supported his brothers and sisters until he married at the age of 23 years old.
The disease is horrible, but, it is not restricted to the coal miners. The soot of coal mining migrates into the COMMUNITY AIR and is a covering on public schools. There is nothing benevolent about coal. It is a heart ache for this country from the beginning of time. The USA is better off leaving it in the ground and expanding far different economics.
To my understanding the EPA has never leveraged fines or charges based on the poor air quality in communities. The Black Lung Disease Fund should have been extended to families of mine workers and other community members such as shop keepers. Such expansion of that fund would require investigation and factual events of lung disease in these communities. A good place to start are the archives of local hospitals. I am sure there are statistics of community members with lung disease. I am very confident when analyzed the statistical difference than the rest of the country without coal mines is stark.
