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Archive: Coal

Emissions

What is RGGI and How Will It Benefit Our State?

By Ethan Story / November 19, 2020
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Photo credit: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (https://bit.ly/3nDFILV) Pennsylvania is the third-largest greenhouse gas polluting state and has the fifth dirtiest power plant sector in the nation. To deal with this problem, the Wolf administration has proposed a rule to cut carbon pollution from electric power plants. This would link Pennsylvania to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (“RGGI,” […]

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Money Pit: Cumberland Closing Looms as Coal Companies Face Rapidly Diminishing Markets

By Nick Hood / September 18, 2020
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In February, Contura Energy, the owners of the Cumberland Mining Complex near Waynesburg, contemplated its need for a $60-million coal-refuse impoundment in order to continue production, and the owners cited current finances and market conditions as being a major issue of concern.  In June of 2020 Contura announced that it is actively marketing the mine […]

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Demand that DEP Protect Vulnerable Coalfield Residents During COVID-19 Crisis

By Ethan Story / April 8, 2020
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While our legislators are making efforts to help those in need during this COVID-19 pandemic, some areas of our health and safety are being overlooked. While most businesses in the Commonwealth have been ordered to shut down, others have been allowed to operate. We understand that coal mining operations have been deemed “essential” during this […]

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Coal Companies are Extracting More Than Just Coal from our Communities!

By Nick Hood / February 11, 2020
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This is the 9th installment in our What’s on your mind? series and was written by CCJ Community Organizer Nick Hood. In the 4th assessment (2008-2013), the researchers suggested that the PADEP update their extremely inefficient and outdated data collection systems. Not only did PADEP fail to improve their data collection systems from the last […]

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Researchers release their 5th assessment of ACT 54

By Nick Hood / January 23, 2020
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The 5th Assessment of Act 54 (the law regulating underground coal mining) was recently completed by nineteen (19) researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.  This study, which addresses the effects of mine subsidence due to underground coal mining activity, focused on active mines and damage report claims from […]

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Let’s Not Let History Repeat Itself

By Kristen Locy / November 7, 2019
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Source: Kristen Locy I grew up in the shadow of coal mining in Appalachia. The remnants of the industry were ghosts in my life. I often bike on the Montour Trail where the Montour Railroad used to take coal to the steel mills in Pittsburgh. After my bike rides, I sometimes get ice cream in […]

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