Registration is beginning to roll in for the Annual meeting at The Greenbrier. If you did not receive registration information please let us know. sdavison@wvcoal.com
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The Friends of Coal Ladies Auxiliary has a new web site and are asking everyone to visit the new web site www.friendsofcoalladies.com as many times as you can. For each time you visit, the web site moves up so when you type “coal” into your search engine the web site will be one of the top listed in your search. The site also hosts a full store for purchase of FOC items and wearing apparel.
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Mining companies are being targeted across the board
As much as President Barack Obama claims to be concerned about jobs for Americans, he has a strange way of showing it.
Three recent actions in Alaska, West Virginia, and Arizona reveal the astonishing ways in which the Obama administration is twisting our nation's environmental laws in order to block natural resource production, and destroy jobs in the process.
On May 11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released an assessment of the Bristol Bay watershed, an area of approximately 20,000 square miles (roughly twice the size of Maryland) in southwest Alaska.
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Last Saturday more than 2,000 supporters of the coal industry from West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky gathered for an enthusiastic rally at the Fairgrounds in Abingdon, Virginia. Two bus-loads of officials and supporters from Logan and southern West Virginia participated in the event.
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(article from) ABINGDON, Va. – There is a war on coal.
That’s the message officials from four states, includingKentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee, told those in attendance at Saturday’s “Rally for Appalachian Coal” in Abington,Va.
“This is a war against our jobs, our families, our communities and our way of life in the coalfield region ofAppalachia,” said West Virginia Senator Art Kirkendoll (D-Logan). “The United States Department of Environmental Protection has declared war and we must stand up and send a message that we will not let them take our jobs, harm our families and communities and try to destroy our way of life.”