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appalachiablue

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2. The employment of coal workers and the coal industry have been
Wed Aug 22, 2018, 11:13 PM
Aug 2018

declining for decades because of new technologies, policies of the 1980s, renewables and other alternative energies, as everyone knows. The remaining owners are the only ones to continue profiting from coal operations, MTR etc., that's all. From a daughter, niece and granddaughter of coal miners, for God's Sake!

~ Thank you Ken Ward Jr.

*The Cruelty Behind Trump's Absurd Lies About Coal To West Virginians*, By Joe Romm, Think Progress, Aug. 22, 2018.
https://thinkprogress.org/the-cruelty-behind-trumps-absurd-lies-about-coal-to-west-virginians-c4acc7dd5c5b/

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