30 New Stories Of Real Environmental Conservation Leadership In PA. Here are 30 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.: State Conservation Commission, Dept.
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United States Senate Jul 1984 - Aug 1984 2 Mining Engineer at Corsa Coal Corporation Latrobe, PA. aimoss graces --
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Sep 13, 2020Evangelicals call on the PA Senate to support children, not more polluting fossil fuels I grew-up in Cambria County as the proud son and grandson of coal miners and spent 14 years in the
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The United Mine Workers of America epitomized the New Deal concept of junior partner in the corporate economy, whereby unions made some concessions to management in return for better salaries and benefits. This book tells how that union's welfare and retirement fund blazed a trail in industrial benefits and served as a barometer of labor relations in the post-World War II era--and how union
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Hewitt further purchased the iron mines at Andover, New Jersey in 1847, and the Durham Iron Works in Pennsylvania in 1870. In 1854, Cooper Hewitt built the Sussex Mine Railroad that connected mines to canal line, carrying ore to furnaces at Philipsburg until about 1862.
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Tell your lawmakers to support Senate Bill 119 (SB119) and House Bill 637 (HB637) requiring legislative approval before Pennsylvania is allowed to unilaterally impose a carbon tax that would impose a significant cost on Pennsylvania consumers and businesses. Learn more at or visit The Issues page.
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Jun 18, 2020It was once a small neighborhood, populated primarily by coal miners, adjacent to the Carney coal mine near what is now known as East High Acres in Latrobe, Westmoreland County, PA. Carney appears on the Latrobe U.S. Geological Survey Map. Latitude 40.306 and longitude -79.447.
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Feb 19, 2021Her description of the starving miners, encamped upon the mountain sides, brought substantial results in a financial way, at the close of her address Mother Jones states that the coke regions of Fayette county will be the next field for organization. [Photograph added.] From Pennsylvania's Latrobe Bulletin of January 13, 1911:
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Jan 17, 2017Jan. 17-- The shifting soil and cracked foundation that ousted Carole Mullen from her Latrobe home Friday has served as a wake-up call to neighbors that it is time to sign up for mine
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Aug 05, 2021A burly man with thick eyebrows and a bushy mustache, Trumka was the son and grandson of coal miners. He was born in 1949 in the small southwest Pennsylvania town of Nemacolin and worked for seven years in the mines before earning an accounting degree from Penn State and then a law degree from Villanova University.
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After almost three days of heavy rain, an earthen dam holding back 15 to 18 acres of coal mine drainage water broke about 8 a.m. Saturday. The water, black with accumulated coal dust, poured into Buffalo Creek. JOE WHITE, a private contractor, said he was at the dam only 15 minutes before it collapsed. I don't know what happened.
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Oct 17, 2012The others are in West Virginia and Virginia. Other mines in Pennsylvania are not affected, an Alpha Natural Resources spokesman said in an email to the Pittsburgh Business Times. (Coal Mine Near Latrobe To Be Idled, Pittsburgh Business Times, 9/19/12) Exelon Corp. Plants In Chester And Phoenixville Are Expected To Be Closed.
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The National Mine Map Repository (NMMR) collects and maintains mine map information and images for the entire country. As an extension of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), NMMR acquires maps through public outreach efforts directed at state and federal agencies as well as mining companies, engineering and consulting firms, surveying companies, universities,
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Aug 14, 2021U.S. News World Report - There is so much unwanted gas coming out of American coal mines — those that still produce coal and even those that have long quit — that federal
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humangood pennsylvania (f/k/a phil. presbytery homes) keystone coal mining corporation: 6368: keystone mining services, llc: 5257: kidspeace children's hospital, inc. 5254: kidspeace corporation: 5256: kidspeace national centers for kids in crisis inc. latrobe area hospital
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Apr 16, 2015 - Ancestry helps you understand your genealogy. A family tree takes you back generations—the world's largest collection of online family history
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Oct 17, 2020Charles McElwee edits RealClear's public affairs page on Pennsylvania. He is the 2020-21 John Farley Memorial Fellow, part of The Fund for
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Dec 17, 2019Dec 17, 2019. 1:09 PM. WASHINGTON — Congress has reached a deal to prop up ailing retirement plans covering roughly 120,000 union coal miners — a
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Nov 06, 2009For Immediate Release, November 6, 2009. Contact: Tierra Curry, Center for Biological Diversity, (928) 522-3681 Dirty Coal Czar Confirmed by Senate. WASHINGTON— The Senate today confirmed controversial nominee Joseph Pizarchik to be director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, the federal agency charged with protecting communities and natural
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Sep 21, 2008Campaigning in Virginia coal country, Joe Biden actually described himself as "a coal miner" from the Northeastern Pennsylvania anthracite region. In his first visit to Southwest Virginia, Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, speaking at the United Mine Workers€™ annual fish fry here on Saturday, was quick to tout his ties to coal.
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Aug 06, 2021One of the entities Joe Manchin founded in 1987 was the mining services company Transcom, later reorganized to be Farmington Resources, named after the family's hometown in coal country. Joe Manchin continues to hold up to $500,000 in assets in the company, according to his most recent financial disclosure.
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May 01, 2017The goal of Senate Bill No. 624 is clear: revise Section 5(e) and 9.1(d) to say that nothing in these subsections, statute, or any other statute enacted by the Generally Assembly was intended to prohibit or restrict longwall coal mining in Pennsylvania. The proposed revisions seek to drastically change the Department's express authority and
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Aug 17, 2021Latrobe woman battling rare breast cancer Conor Lamb joins 2022 race for open Pennsylvania Senate seat the powerful president of the AFL-CIO who rose from the coal mines of Pennsylvania to
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U.S. Capitol and Pennsylvania Avenue before 1814 - This modest drawing by an unknown hand depicts the west front of an incomplete U. S. Capitol as it appeared between 1811 and its burning by the British in August 1814. A low temporary structure is shown connecting the north (Senate
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Aug 05, 2021Trumka, a third-generation coal miner from Nemacolin, Pennsylvania, began working in the mines at age 19, and became president of the AFL-CIO, a
Get PriceJun 22, 2015A bill that would encourage the use of coal mine water to frack natural gas wells was approved by the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee on Monday. Senate
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Pennsylvania, from the time of the Civil War through World War II, became the steel, railroad and coal producing colossus of the world. But the environmental price paid for that economic achievement was that we became the state with the most miles of stream polluted by acid mine drainage and landscape scarred by culm banks.
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Jul 01, 2021Also in 2017, an Energy and Policy Institute report found that utility companies funded by ratepayers sent $760 million from 2004 through 2015 to EEI in member dues, which then spent a total of $130.6 million on lobbying and political expenditures, 14% of its total expenses. The event where Manchin spoke, called "The Road to Net Zero," also
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- Mining in eastern Kentucky employs over 15, 000 people--surface mining alone directly employs over 5,000 workers. - On average, eastern Kentucky miners earn $945 a week. PENNSYLVANIA – 4th in U.S. Coal Production - In Pennsylvania, 56 percent of all electricity is produced from coal. - Pennsylvania mined 68 million tons of coal in 2008.
Get PriceBrowse the most recent Latrobe, Pennsylvania obituaries and condolences. Celebrate and remember the lives we have lost in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
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Methane from Coal. The natural gas methane is a byproduct of coalification -- the process where plant materials were gradually buried, compressed, and heated, resulting in the various ranks of coal. In Pennsylvania, natural gas is extracted from coal as coalbed methane and as coal mine methane. Coalbed methane comes from (unmined) coal.
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Scottish-born William Wilson, made his way from the coal mines of Tioga County to the U.S. Congress, and in 1913 became the nation's first Secretary of Labor. The son of Italian immigrants, Michael Musmanno led the successful 1920s campaign to abolish Pennsylvania's infamous Coal and Iron Police.
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