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PBS Coals begins new mine project
RoxCoal, a subsidiary of PBS Coals, Friedens, has started the long process of site preparation to open a new underground mine. The A Seam Mine is located near the intersection of the Garrett Shortcut and Mud Pike in Brothersvalley and Black townships....
Tags: Friedens
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Portland power plant owners settle pollution lawsuit
The owner of a power plant in Upper Mount Bethel Township has agreed to stop burning coal as part of a settlement in a lawsuit by two downwind states over air pollution. NRG Energy, which acquired the Portland Generating Station last year in a merger...
Tags: Justice System, Environmental Pollution, Trials, Reliant Energy Inc, Allentown
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Historic Bethlehem office to become residences
Bethlehem's Dodson building, once an office of the Lehigh Navigation Coal Co., will become a 21-unit apartment project topped with a penthouse suite under a $4 million redevelopment plan unveiled Wednesday. The five-story building at 528 N. New St....
Tags: John Callahan, Radio Industry, Lobbying, Bethlehem Steel, Freemansburg
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ND air quality receives 'A' grade
The Dickinson PressThe Peace Garden State continues to receive high marks for air quality, despite dust issues plaguing the western part of the state. "North Dakota is one of a handful of states that meet all clean air standards," Jim Semerad, North Dakota Department of...Tags: American Lung Association, Standards, Environmental Pollution, Population, Environmental Politics
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Exclusive: South Africa's NUM seeks 15-60 percent wage rises from gold, coal producers
ReutersJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said it would seek pay rises of up to 60 percent from gold and coal producers, raising the prospect of fresh strikes as firms battle higher costs and falling prices in an already heated...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Lonmin Plc, Africa, Inflation and Deflation, Gold and Precious Material
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Clock is ticking, slowly, on rules for coal-fired power plants
POOLESVILLE, Md. — On a curve of the Potomac River 37 miles northwest of Washington, the Dickerson power plant has stood sentry over small villages, crop fields and horse farms for more than half a century. Burning mostly coal and some natural...
Tags: Metal and Mineral, Global Warming, Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, Energy Resources
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Religious groups criticize Patriot Coal creation
The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A new report criticizing Arch Coal and Peabody Energy for creating Patriot Coal was released Tuesday by two groups of religious leaders -- Interfaith Worker Justice and Religious Leaders for Coalfield Justice. More than 23,000...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Peabody Energy Corporation, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Christianity, Anglicanism
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EDITORIAL: Coal down, gas up
The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Another national report confirms that West Virginia's economy is undergoing a historic transition: Mined-out mid-Appalachian coal operations are fading, while the new Marcellus gas industry booms. Easy-to-reach coal seams mostly are...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Unemployment Benefits, Petroleum Industry, Mining, Energy Resources
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Manteno soccer mashes Coal City
Morris Daily Herald, Ill.Like a semi-truck that dumped a load of steel on Interstate 80 and stopped traffic on Tuesday, the Manteno girls soccer team effectively did the same to Coal City earlier that afternoon. Bouyed by a hat trick from Emily Gather, the Panthers soccer... -
Regulators: Dust issue will prompt probe into Murdock coal mine
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.State environmental regulators agreed Monday to look into new complaints by Murdock area residents that a large amount of dust still blows on windy days from the former Murdock coal mine site, which is the target of pollution complaints filed last fall by...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Justice System, Lawyers, Archer Daniels Midland Incorporated, Conservation
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Lamb of God takes away the cares of the world
The first domesticated lamb turned over coals in Mesopotamia, literally the land "between rivers," some 10,000 years or so ago. But the lamb I'll be roasting in my backyard on this Orthodox Easter Sunday — also on a spit, over coals — is one...
Tags: Judaism, Christian Orthodoxy, Christianity, Easter, Hypothermia
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Special Report- 'Coal Mafia' stokes India's power crisis
ReutersDHANBAD, India (Reuters) - Seven shots rang out at a wedding reception in this sooty city in eastern India, and Suresh Singh, India's "Coal King", fell fatally wounded. He was a wealthy coal trader, a politician and, police say, a crime boss. At the time...Tags: Prosecution, FBI, Theft, Railway Transportation, International Energy
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