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The United States could lose more than 15,000 coal jobs per decade in the 2030s and 40s.
Nearly 87 percent of county government in Shanxi Province couldn’t pay the salary of their civil servants as coal price dropped.
The agreement does not include an admission or denial of wrongdoing.
An outspoken critic of President Obama, charged with conspiring to violate mine safety rules before a deadly explosion, is under orders not to tell jurors he’s being persecuted by Democrats.
Don Blankenship ascended from a modest, single-mother upbringing in Appalachia to personally make almost $20 million off coal in one year.
