This question really got a response from the crowd!
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Our world is burning around us, the Alberta government is actively poisoning our water with more #Coal for a foreign billionaire & the upcoming #G7 event in #Kananaskis has barely a whisper about #ClimateChange to it.
It’s time to stand up. Join us. #yyc #Wildfires #ClimateAction
Our world is burning around us, the Alberta government is actively poisoning our water with more #Coal for a foreign billionaire & the upcoming #G7 event in #Kananaskis has barely a whisper about #ClimateChange to it.
It’s time to stand up. Join us. #yyc #Wildfires #ClimatAction
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Bluesky Social · Calgary Climate Hub (@calgaryclimatehub.ca)#G7 Leaders are gathering in #Kananaskis this June to discuss and decide our future, let us make water an undeniable priority!
Join us on June 15, 12-2PM to demand the recognition of Indigenous water rights and true water protections!
Details: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/g7_rally_for_indigenous_water_protections #yyc
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WH spox Harrison Fields said #Trump “shocked” the energy industry back to life & called on the Senate to “liberate our federal lands & waters to #oil, #gas, #coal, #geothermal, & #mineral leasing.”
…With the opinion, the Trump admin is saying it has the power to abolish or shrink #NationalMonuments that have not yet been ratified by #Congress, said John Leshy, a University of California College of the #Law professor who served as #Interior’s solicitor general in the #Clinton admin.
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“More people will die,” said Cory Zigler, a professor of biostatistics at Brown who has studied #air #pollution #deaths from #coal-fired #PowerPlants. “More of this type of pollution that we know kills people will be in the air.”
…Virtually all the benefits from the rules come from restricting the burning of coal, #oil & natural #gas. The #FossilFuel industry was a heavy contributor to #Trump’s campaign & #Republicans overall.
#CoalMining Devastated the #Water and Brought #BlackLungDisease -- #ForestLake Hearing on #Coal
by #TóNizhóníÁní, #CensoredNews
via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com
June 6, 2025
"On Friday, May 30, 2025, the Office of the Speaker held a public hearing on coal at the Forest Lake Chapter House in Forest Lake (Tsiiyi’ Be’ak’id), Arizona. This open forum allowed participants to share their input and comments regarding the Federal Executive Order 14241, “Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry,” aimed at amending federal policies to boost the #CoalIndustry.
This public hearing came after community opposition and frustration to Navajo Nation President #BuuNygren ’s support of President #Trump’s executive orders to prop up coal. The public hearing generated over 50 public comments, more than 169 people in attendance.
"Tó Nizhóní Ání executive director #NicoleHorseherder was one of the first to provide comments in opposition of coal siting the decades-long impacts on the land and water. “The bottom line is coal mining has had adverse impacts to the aquifers and that’s Navajo water. What is Navajo going to do about it?' said Nicole as she provided a brief overview of the coal mining and reclamation issues at the #KayentaMine.
"The federal agencies responsible for overseeing reclamation and cleanup acknowledged, verbally, that their duties are to the shallow #aquifers impacted by coal but mentioned the deep aquifers are the responsibility of the Department of Interior. These are just one of many issues impacting the #BlackMesa region, which played host to the coal industry for over 50 years."
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/06/to-nizhoni-ani-coal-mining-devastated.html
bsnorrell.blogspot.comTó Nizhóní Ání: Coal Mining Devastated the Water and Brought Black Lung Disease -- Forest Lake Hearing on CoalCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
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[#Aluminium #smelting is highly #energy intensive, & in some countries is economical only if there are inexpensive sources of #electricity. Bet #Trump would use #coal which he has proposed to power #AI #DatabaseCenters.]
**Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind**
Hannah Ritchie & Pablo Rosado
“_The chart shows that just over a decade ago, almost half of the country’s power came from coal. This has now fallen to 6%._
_Solar and wind have replaced it; their share has tripled in the last decade; when combined, they’ve become the largest source._”
Today in Labor History June 1 is the day that U.S. labor law officially allows children under the age of 16 to work up to 8 hours per day between the hours of 7:00 am and 9:00 pm. Time is ticking away, Bosses. Have you signed up sufficient numbers of low-wage tykes to maintain production rates with your downsized adult staffs?
The reality is that child labor laws have always been violated regularly by employers and these violations have been on the rise recently. Additionally, lawmakers have weakened existing, poorly enforced laws to make it even easier to exploit children. Over the past few years, the number of children employed in violation of labor laws rose by 37%, while lawmakers in at least 10 states passed, or introduced, new laws to roll back the existing rules. Violations include hiring kids to work overnight shifts in meatpacking factories, cleaning razor-sharp blades and using dangerous chemical cleaners on the kills floors for companies like Tyson and Cargill. Particularly vulnerable are migrant youth who have crossed the southern U.S. border from Central America, unaccompanied by parents. https://www.epi.org/publication/child-labor-laws-under-attack/
Of course, what is happening in the U.S. is small potatoes compared with many other countries, where exploitation of child labor is routine, and often legal. At least 20% of all children in low-income countries are engaged in labor, mostly in agriculture. In sub-Saharan Africa it is 25%. Kids are almost always paid far less than adults, increasing the bosses’ profits. They are often more compliant than adults and less likely to form unions and resist workplace abuses and safety violations. Bosses can get them to do dangerous tasks that adults can’t, or won’t, do, like unclogging the gears and belts of machinery. This was also the norm in the U.S., well into the 20th century. Many kids began work before they were 10. They often had missing limbs and died young from work-related injuries and disease. However, when the bosses abused them, they would sometimes walk out, en masse, in wildcat strikes. And when their parent went on strike, they would almost always walk out with them, in solidarity.
In my novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill,” the protagonist, Mike Doyle, works as a coal cleaner in the breaker (coal crushing facility) of a coal mine at the age or 13. He is trying to find a new home for his family before his alcoholic uncle kills one of his siblings. So, he takes a job with a union leader, who is also a gangster, while secretly courting his daughter, and quickly learns that the gang leader, cops and rival gang all want him dead.
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#workingclass #LaborHistory #children #childlabor #exploitation #capitalism #nike #AnywhereButSchuylkill #coal #mining #books #fiction #novel #hisfic #historicalfiction @bookstadon
Russian coal exports declined by 10% in 2024 amid tightened sanctions, shipping constraints, and waning demand in Asia.
As EU markets are now largely closed to Russian coal, this trend is expected to continue.
#energy #russia #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #environment #coal #news
https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/05/27/rossii-predrekli-poteryu-10-eksporta-uglya-k-2030-godu-a164403
Русская служба The Moscow Times · России предрекли потерю 10% экспорта угля к 2030 году
Australia’s coal outlook has dimmed amid shrinking orders from Asian buyers.
Regional decarbonisation, rising competition, and energy diversification are eroding export volumes.
Analysts warn the sector’s long-term viability depends on restructuring, not price rebounds.
The trend is part of a broader shift in Asia’s energy mix #australia #renewables #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #environment #energy #news #worldnews #coal #asia
www.hellenicshippingnews.comAustralian coal exports face numerous downside risks, new projections show | Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
China’s coal industry is facing a structural unraveling: prices are falling, inventories are ballooning, and power demand is shifting to wind and solar.
In April 2025, thermal generation dropped 2.3% year-on-year.
Analysts say the sector is now in a ‘vicious cycle’ of oversupply and obsolescence—accelerating a transition thought decades away. #China #renewables #climate #ClimateChange #environment #energy #coal #world #worldnews #news
Today in Labor History May 31, 1921: The Tulsa Race Riot. From May 31 through June 1, deputized whites (i.e., racist vigilantes) killed more than 300 African Americans in the worst race riot in U.S. history. The violence began in response to a false report in the Tulsa Tribune accusing a black man of attacking a white girl in an elevator. The headline made the front page. However, there was an accompanying editorial that called for a lynching. White Tulsans went to the African American community of Greenwood (the Black Wall Street) and started shooting black people. They looted and burned 40 square blocks, destroying over 1,400 African American homes, hospitals, schools, and churches. Ten thousand became homeless and had to spend the winter of 1921 living in tents.
Many African American residents fought back, including veterans of World War One. This attempt at self-preservation prompted the deputized whites and National Guardsmen to arrest 6,000 black residents. Furthermore, they bombarded the community from the air in what was likely the first aerial bombardment of mainland U.S. residents. At least a dozen planes, some carrying police, circled the community and dropped burning balls of turpentine. They also shot at residents from the air. Many of the whites were members of the Klan, such as W. Tate Brady, who had also participated in the tarring and feathering of members of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1917.
Just a few months later, the government again bombarded civilians from the air, during the Battle of Blair Mountain, when 15,000 coal miners battled 3,000 cops, private cops and vigilantes, in the largest insurrection since the Civil War. Up to 100 miners died in the fighting, along with 10-30 Baldwin-Felts detectives and three national guards.
You can read my full article on the Battle of Blair Mountain here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/
"That same day, the Trump administration paused implementation of a rule that would help protect coal miners from an aggressive form of black lung disease. Enforcement of the new protections is officially halted until at least mid-August, according to a federal announcement that came a few days after a federal court agreed to put enforcement on hold to hear an industry challenge."
KFF Health NewsFeds Chop Enforcement Staff and Halt Rules Meant To Curb Black Lung in Coal Miners - KFF Health NewsThe Trump administration has paused implementation of a rule limiting miners’ exposure to airborne silica dust days after a federal court agreed to put it on hold to hear an industry challenge. The protections are meant to head off a surge in cases of black lung disease. Meanwhile, any enforcement of new standards might be meager due to workforce cuts.
Documents Show #EPA Wants to Erase #GreenhouseGas Limits on #PowerPlants
Agency argues #carbon #emissions from power plants do not contribute “significantly” to #climatechange. Eliminating those emissions would have no meaningful effect on public health and welfare, agency said.
Scientists overwhelmingly concluded that #carbondioxide, #methane and other greenhouse gases from the burning of #oil, #gas and #coal are dangerously heating the planet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/climate/epa-power-plant-rules.html
https://archive.ph/nMxLC
The New York Times · Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants
#US #solar keeps surging, generating more power than hydro in #2025
In early 2025, US solar power production jumped 44% compared to the previous year, driven by end-of-year construction to capture tax incentives and long-term cost advantages.
Continued rising demand still outpacing growth of #renewables in the US.
"Instead, the US also saw significant growth in #coal use, which rose by 23% compared to the year prior, after years of steady decline."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/us-solar-keeps-surging-generating-more-power-than-hydro-in-2025/
Ars Technica · US solar keeps surging, generating more power than hydro in 2025
Country coal mine wins approval to dig extra 18.8 million tonnes
By Hamish Cole
Assessment reports have identified an approved NSW mine expansion as putting threatened species at risk and leading to hundreds of hectares of land sinking.
ABC News · Approval for Glencore Australia's Ulan Coal Mine expansion near Mudgee
https://infocville.com/2025/03/12/university-of-virginia-planning-to-phase-out-coal-plant/ Missed this a couple of months ago: “we believe that by converting off of coal, we obviously will eliminate those four lovely coal silos that are down on Main Street, as well as all the associated ash and handling facilities” #UVA #cville #coal #climate #CleanAir
Information Charlottesville · University of Virginia planning to phase out coal plantThe Finance Committee of the UVA Board of Visitors also had to weigh in
Today in Labor History May 20, 1946: The U.S. government took over control of the coal mines (again). On April 1, 400,000 UMWA coal miners from 26 states went on strike for safer conditions, health benefits and increased wages. WWII had recently ended and President Truman saw the strike as counterproductive to economic recovery. In response, he seized the mines, making the miners temporarily federal employees. He ended the strike by offering them a deal that included healthcare and retirement security.
The coal strike was part of the strike wave of 1945-1946, the biggest strike wave in U.S. history. During WWII, most of the major unions collaborated with the U.S. war effort by enforcing labor “discipline” and preventing strikes. In exchange, the U.S. government supported closed shop policies under which employers at unionized companies agreed to hire only union members. While the closed shop gave unions more power within a particular company, the no-strike policy made that power virtually meaningless.
When the war ended, inflation soared and veterans flooded the labor market. As a result, frustrated workers began a series of wildcat strikes. Many grew into national, union-supported strikes. In November 1945, 225,000 UAW members went on strike. In January 1946, 174,000 electric workers struck. That same month, 750,000 steel workers joined them. Then, in April, the coal strike began. 250,000 railroad workers struck in May. In total, 4.3 million workers went on strike. It was the closest the U.S. came to a national General Strike in the 20th century. And in December 1946, Oakland, California did have a General Strike, the last in U.S. history.
Then, in 1947, Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, which severely restricted the powers and activities of unions. It also banned General Strikes, stripping away the most powerful tool workers had. And there hasn’t been a General Strike in the U.S. since.
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Someone whose posts aren’t quite public served as a reminder to me to point out there’s an EU fund specifically dedicated to helping people in coal and similar regions with the energy transition.
Of course it is also up to member states (who control much bigger budgets) and it isn’t just about extreme cases like coal mining, but skills in every industry
European CommissionJust Transition FundFind out what the EU’s Just Transition Fund does to support territories expected to be most negatively impacted by the transition towards climate-neutrality.