Charleston, W.V. – President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed several changes that will affect the US coal industry.
Trump issued an executive order to allow mining to federal land this month. He has used his urgent authority to allow some of the old coal -powered power plants to retire to meet the growing demand in the growth of data centers, artificial intelligence and electronic cars.
The Republican President also gave a two -year discount to about 70 old coal -based power plants from the federal requirements to reduce the emission of toxic chemicals.
Trump’s official skill team, operated by Elon Mask, planned to cancel 34 US mining protection and health administration office in 19 in 19 states.
The coal industry once supplied more than half of the United States to power. However, it has been steady for decades because operators have gone out of business and utilities install more renewable energy and transform coal-based plants into fuel by cheap and cleaner-brown natural gas.
The US coal production was 1 billion tonnes (907,000 metric tons) in 20 and 578 million tons (524 million metric tons) by 2023, the last year available, the US Energy Information Administration reported.
Coal employment was at the top of the 1920s when there were about 900,000 minerals. It was about 5,3 in the 5th and has declined continuously since the 5th. After the Coronavirus epidemic, employment has returned from 2022 to 2021, with a increase of 5.2% at 1,7666. West Virginia has appointed the maximum minerals at 5, and then Kentucky is at 5,3. About half of the country’s 560 coal mines are located in West Virginia (165) and Kentaki (112). Despite only 15 mines, WiMing was the most producing coal state due to mechanization and more accessible coal.
Over the past four decades, the fatalities of mining have declined significantly. According to the MSHA, each or less has died in each in the last five years.
MSHA is responsible for the application of my protection law. It needs to be inspected twice a year on each underground mine quarterly and each surface mining. The MSHA inspectors will have to travel more to a mining for the proposed cuts of the so -called Government Skills Department of the mask, and it may mean less thorough inspection, long -time mining protection investigators and environmental experts who worked on behalf of the agency, said Jack Spadero.
According to the Doz website, MSHA is expected to save $ 18 million to finish the lease. It is unclear whether the location of the inspectors and other jobs will be transferred from these offices to other facilities.
Seven of the MSHA offices scheduled for the closure are in Kennetti and four in Pennsylvania. West Virginia is among the states, including two target offices. Also considered for the closure are the offices of Surface mining facilities in Lexington, Kentucky, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, to restore damaged land by strip mining, and to re -claim the abandoned and damaged mining land, the national footprint of a company built during the administration of Carter.
A recent review of the publicly available information of the Appalachian Citizens Law Center indicates that the facilities of the Choping block were inspected by MSHA staff from February 2021 to the beginning of 2021 to the beginning of 2021.
Art lawyers have long claimed that there are other uses for coal, some of which use cleaner technology.
Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania-based core natural resources are working to develop a process to create a synthetic material using West Virginia coal, which can be used as anode for lithium-ion batteries, reduces US dependence on countries like China, Mathew Macoviak’s director of Mathew Macoiyak, Mathew Maciac.
The core recently acquired a company that turns the coal into a carbon foam that produces compound equipment used to create nose cone and aircraft wings for the US defense industry.
“Whether or not there are any other coal -based generation in the future, it should be said something else in the future.” “But at least, we need to concentrate on maintaining our current coal fleet.”
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