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When Blue-Collar Workers Are Abandoned in Favor of ‘Social Justice’ Warriors

When Blue-Collar Workers Are Abandoned in Favor of ‘Social Justice’ Warriors
A backyard overlooks the valley to the GenOn Cheswick Power Station, which burns coal to produce 637 megawatts of electricity for the region, in Cheswick, Pa., on June 7, 2021. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images
Salena Zito
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CHESWICK, Pa.—Up until two years ago, it would only take 12 hours for coal mined deep in a labyrinth operation 60 miles from here to go from that underground mine, through a high-tech cleaning procedure, and be loaded on a barge or rail car and brought to the Cheswick Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant, to light communities along the Allegheny River for generations.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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