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TVA Votes to Close 2 Coal Plants, Despite

Energy Information Agency data show most of the coal shipped to the Paradise plant during the first nine months of 2018 came from Kentucky mines that are part of Murray Energy Corp., which is led ...

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The Coal Mine Abandonment and Reclamation Crisis

of its coal plan to shut down. 8 ... ing-down-massive-us-coal-mine-as-customer-base-dwindles-62788531 2 Regulators have also failed to enforce the contemporaneous reclamation requirement, and have allowed companies to let mines sit idle and unreclaimed, ... The Kentucky mine regulator has assessed reclamation costs …

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Last working coal mine on Vancouver Island shuts down, …

The last working coal mine on Vancouver Island has halted production indefinitely, marking the end of an industry that established towns, a railway, and some of the province's first labour unions ...

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No more union coal mines remain in Kentucky, home of …

The union era's death knell sounded in Kentucky on New Year's Eve, when Pat Coal announced the closing of its Highland Mine. The underground mine in western Kentucky employed about 400 hourly ...

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Coal industry: Economics biggest threat to Western Kentucky coal mines

Pat was shutting down both its Highland mining complex — the last United Mine Workers operation in Kentucky — and its Dodge Hill complex in southern Union County, putting 650 people out of ...

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Congressional office agrees to investigate 'zombie' coal mines in Kentucky

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — With a federal investigation into technically active but non-producing "zombie" mines set to begin in March, a citizens law group in Kentucky has found production idled at nearly 40% of all active coal strip mines in the state, with some not mined in more than a decade.

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After the Local Coal Mine Shuts Down, These Navajo and Hopi

In 2019, after nearly 50 years of operation and facing increased competition from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station finally closed down ...

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Biden Administration to End Coal Leasing in Powder River …

Gillette, WY — . The Biden administration announced today that it will end coal leasing in the Powder River Basin – the largest coal-producing region in the United States. The decision represents an historic shift in federal management of coal in the region, recognizing that the market has shifted away from coal as an electricity source …

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Aluminum company says preferred site for new smelter is a …

FILE - Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear responds to a question during an interview, Dec. 19, 2023, in Frankfort, Ky. An aluminum company has singled out northeastern Kentucky as its preferred site for a new aluminum smelter that would bring about 1,000 permanent jobs to an Appalachian region hard hit by the loss of coal and …

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Man dies in coal mine accident in Union County, Ky.

A Sturgis man died after an accident at an underground coal mine in Western Kentucky early Saturday. Lester Daugherty Jr., 48, was working overnight at the River View mine in Waverly in Union ...

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Coal use at U.S. power plants continues downward spiral; full …

If that figure holds, it would be the smallest annual U.S. coal production since 1962—but most of the years between 1936 and 1957 also had higher output. Western producers, which include the nation's largest mines in the Powder River Basin, could be …

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Coal's Dying Light: The decline of coal is hurting Kentucky …

Generations of Americans relied on the coal mined in Kentucky to forge the steel, heat the furnaces and power the homes of this country. The nation's reliance on …

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The Decline of Kentucky's Coal Industry Has …

Kentucky still has about 20 percent of all coal mines in the country, third-highest behind West ia and Pennsylvania, according to the agency.

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Interactive atlas of coal mine maps in Kentucky

The Kentucky Mine Mapping Information System is produced by the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet to allow users to access maps of coal mines and mined out areas in Kentucky. Users can search by company name, seam name, or state file number (SFN). For each map, overview information is provided where available (map year, mine status, …

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Coal power plants in the U.S. are closing. Here are …

A few months later, it called for retiring most of its Wyoming coal fleet over the next few years, then committed to shutting down a coal unit at Cholla Power Plant in Arizona by the end of 2020.

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The Kentucky coal town fighting to survive after coal mining …

Hazard, Kentucky, a town hard-hit from coal-mining closings, is struggling to employ its out-of-work coal miners through a mix of local, state, federal and private programs.

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Panel Appointed By Dem Incumbent Approves Coal Plant …

Kentucky has an energy-intensive state economy, and about 20% of the operational coal mines in the U.S. are located in the state, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The coal industry employed about 5,000 people in the state in 2022, a sharp decline from the more than 16,000 jobs the industry provided in 2012, …

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In Coal Country, the Mines Shut Down, the Women Went …

By Campbell Robertson Sept. 14, 2019 FLEMING-NEON, Ky. — In the pre-dawn hours when all is dark and quiet, Amanda Lucas leaves her house and begins the long drive to her job at a hospital an hour away. ... In Coal Country, the Mines Shut Down, the Women Went to Work and the World Quietly Changed. By Campbell Robertson. Sept. 14, 2019.

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Murray Energy announces idling of KenAmerican Resources, Inc. Paradise Mine

And another 17 jobs lost from the western Kentucky coal company's Genesis mine. The Tennessee Valley Authority voted to shut down the coal-fired unit earlier in February.

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Arch Coal shuts down production at Cumberland River

The Cumberland River mine had a turnover of approximately 290,000t in the first half of the year. Closure of the mine will reduce Arch Coal's 2014 metallurgical coal sales volumes by approximately 200,000t and the company expects to ship between 6.3 million and 6.9 million tonnes.

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Kentucky House approves bill to reduce …

The bill's supporters include Republican Rep. Jim Gooch Jr., who represents a coal region in western Kentucky. Gooch comes from a coal mining family and previously worked in mines himself. He said the …

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Kentucky coal plant closure spells doom for …

Since 2010, 500 coal-burning units, or boilers, at power plants have been shut down and nearly half the nation's coal mines have closed. No U.S. energy company, big or small, is building a new ...

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Coal was king here in Paradise. Now TVA may end an era in Western Kentucky.

FILE - In a June 3, 2014, photo, the Paradise Fossil Plant stands in Drakesboro Ky. A group of landowners and a Kentucky coal industry group are asking a federal judge to halt plans to shut down ...

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How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky

A booming narrator says Kentucky coal mining began when the country began — in the late 1700s. ... three years before Portal 31 was shut down forever thanks to one machine that does the work ...

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Coal industry: Economics biggest threat to Western Kentucky …

One by one, electric utilities that embraced coal as the smart choice a generation or two ago have begun shutting down or converting their Western Kentucky …

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2 western Ky. mines halt operations, affecting 670 miners

HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) — Two large underground coal mines in western Kentucky will be idled, putting about 670 miners out of work. Pat Coal Corp. is halting operations at its Highland No. 9 mine and Dodge Hill No. 1 mine in Union County.

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American Consolidated Natural Resources to Idle …

Western Kentucky coal production has plummeted from 39.9 million tons in 2013 to 15.9 million tons in 2023. Impact: This closure will leave Alliance Natural Resource Partners as the sole coal mine …

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Two western Kentucky mines halt operations, …

Pat Coal Corp. is halting operations at its Highland No. 9 mine and Dodge Hill No. 1 mine in Union County in Kentucky. The mines employ about 670 workers and produced about 3.9 million...

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FACT CHECK: 'More Coal-Fired Power Plants Have

Natural gas-fired plants have replaced some coal-fired plants in the electricity fuel mix, per the EIA. Benjamin Zycher with the American Enterprise Institute told TheDC that low natural gas prices and regulatory costs imposed by Obama's Clean Power Plan on coal were the biggest reasons for the shift away from coal-fired power plants in …

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No union mines left in Kentucky, where labor wars once raged

HARLAN, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky coal miners bled and died to unionize. Their workplaces became war zones, and gun battles once punctuated union protests. In past …

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