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The last week of April (April 28 – May 4, 2013) will commemorate Coal Education Week in the Mountain State, as officially declared by Governor Earl Ray Tomblin.
The Proclamation recognizes the importance of coal in West Virginia from fuel that powered the transformation of the United States during the Industrial Revolution to present day through economic development and diversification resulting in new commercial, industrial, agricultural, public, residential and recreational facilities on land made available through coal mining.
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2013 Symposium presentations as well as Mountaineer Guardian and Reclamation award photographs can now be accessed at: www.wvcoal.com, Go to the Media pull down and you will see 2013 Symposium, there you will locate the presentation videos as well as the photographs.
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It is hard not to believe that the Obama Administration is hell-bent on putting the coal industry out of business forever.
The latest evidence of the Administration's anti-coal bias is the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to issue unprecedented regulations governing new fossil fuel-based electric plants.
These proposed regulations would effectively stop the construction of any new coal power plants by requiring new coal-fueled power plants to meet the same standards as new gas-fired plants.
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CHARLESTON – Four Logan County mining operations – Alex Energy, Mingo-Logan Coal Company, Apogee Coal Company and Eastern Arrow – were honored recently for environmental stewardship during the West Virginia Coal Association’s 40th Annual West Virginia Mining Symposium, held Mar. 6-8 in Charleston.
“We would like to congratulate Alex Energy, Mingo-Logan Coal Company, Apogee Coal Company, Eastern Arrow and the other companies who were recognized for their hard work and responsible reclamation,” said Bill Raney, president of the West Virginia Coal Association. “Each of these companies goes far beyond what is required to restore former mine lands. We always say coal miners are the real environmentalists. They don’t just talk about doing something…they go out and do it. They do it because this is their home. We are proud to represent these companies and the 63,000 coal mining families who live and work here in West Virginia.”
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