The Coal Trap
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Author | : James M. Van Nostrand |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2022-07-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108830587 |
A cautionary tale for the many other jurisdictions around the world that are resisting the transition to clean energy resources.
Author | : James M. Van Nostrand |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2022-07-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108904459 |
Between 2009 and 2019, West Virginian politicians aligned themselves with the interests of the coal industry to the substantial detriment of the citizens and economy of the state. Despite the undeniable low-carbon transformation that was occurring in the energy industry in the US during this period, state political leaders doubled down on coal. Rather than provide the leadership necessary to manage the transition of the state's economic drivers away from fossil fuels, they largely blamed the demise of the coal industry on the federal government. At every turn, the interests of the coal industry were placed above the economic and environmental health of West Virginians. James Van Nostrand tells the story of why West Virginia now faces overwhelming obstacles to competing in the economic marketplace of the twenty-first century. The book serves as a warning of how a fair energy transition can be derailed by political failure.
Author | : Constance Horne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
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Author | : Karen Tintori |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0743428048 |
A gripping account of the worst coal mine fire in US history—the 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster that claimed the lives of 259 men. "Drawing on diaries, letters, written accounts of survivors and testimony from the coroner's inquest...Tintori's engaging prose keeps readers on the edge" (Publishers Weekly). Inspired by a refrain of her girlhood—"Your grandfather survived the Cherry Mine disaster"—Karen Tintori began a search for her family's role in the harrowing tragedy of 1909. She uncovered the stories of victims, survivors, widows, orphans, townspeople, firefighters, reporters, and mine owners, and wove them together to pen Trapped, a riveting account of the tragic day that would inspire America's first worker's compensation laws and hasten much-needed child labor reform. On a Saturday morning in November of 1909, four hundred and eighty men went down into the mines as they had countless times before. But a fire erupted in the mineshaft that day and soon burned out of control. By nightfall, more than half the men would either be dead or trapped as officials sealed the mine in an attempt to contain the blaze. Miraculously, twenty men would emerge one week later, but not before the Cherry Mine disaster went down in history as the worst ever coal mine fire in the US—and not before all the treachery and heroism of mankind were revealed.
Author | : Jen Schneider |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2016-05-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137533153 |
This book examines five rhetorical strategies used by the US coal industry to advance its interests in the face of growing economic and environmental pressures: industrial apocalyptic, corporate ventriloquism, technological shell game, hypocrite’s trap, and energy utopia. The authors argue that these strategies appeal to and reinforce neoliberalism, a discourse and set of practices that privilege market rationality and individual freedom and responsibility above all else. As the coal industry has become the leading target and leverage point for those seeking more aggressive action to mitigate climate change, their corporate advocacy may foreshadow rhetorical strategies available to other fossil fuel industries as they manage similar economic and cultural shifts. The authors’ analysis of coal’s corporate advocacy also identifies contradictions and points of vulnerability in the organized resistance to climate action as well as the larger ideological formation of neoliberalism.
Author | : Steve Hallett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1616147253 |
Author | : Catherine A. Welch |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0876146930 |
Because of family need, an eight-year-old coal miner's son in 1885 leaves school to work at the mines, where he learns about the dangers of a coal mine on his first day on the job.
Author | : Ruth Johnson Jay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Christian life |
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Author | : Society for preventing accidents in coal mines (SUNDERLAND) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1814 |
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Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788364616051 |