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Coal country cleanup: Biden plan sketches out possible future for former miners Reuters | Jul 28, 2021 03:50 PM EDT Troy Mullins, 20, and father Cosam Mullins, 86, pose for their portrait at an Abandoned Mine Land reclamation site where they both operate heavy equipment in Clinchco, western Virginia, U.S (Photo : REUTERS/Dane Rhys) Cosam Mullins mined coal in the western hills of Virginia for much of his working life. Now, with mining jobs hard to find, hes cleaning up the mess the industry lef...

Labor Department expands jobless aid for those forced to choose your money or your health Alexis Keenan Workers whose states denied them unemployment aid during the COVID-19 pandemic may be able to retroactively access benefits back to Feb. 2, 2020, according to a new Labor Department rule issued Thursday. Popular Searches The Department of Labor (DOL) broadened access to the federal pandemic unemployment assistance (PUA) established under the CARES Act, and comes in response to...

150 Years of Spills: Philadelphia Refinery Cleanup Reveals Toxic Legacy of Fossil Fuels Wearing blue hard hats, white hazmat suits and respirator masks, workers carted away bags of debris on a recent morning from a sprawling and now-defunct oil refinery once operated by Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES). Other laborers ripped asbestos from the guts of an old boiler house, part of a massive demolition and redevelopment of the plant, which closed in 2019 after a series of explosions at the faci...

150 years of spills: Philadelphia refinery cleanup highlights toxic legacy of fossil fuels Toggle share menu Advertisement 150 years of spills: Philadelphia refinery cleanup highlights toxic legacy of fossil fuels Wearing blue hard hats, white hazmat suits and respirator masks, workers carted away bags of debris on a recent morning from a sprawling and now-defunct oil refinery once operated by Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES). A view inside the...

Knox Mine Disaster Memorial Mass