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King Coal Losing Crown as U.S. Gains Energy Independence
2013-05-06 20:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: After working 37 years in the coal mines of West Virginia, Ronny Justice punctuates his sentences with coughs. He lost his job a year ago, leaving him without health insurance just as hes battling the early stages of black-lung disease. Justice, 57, had planned to work four more years in a job that paid him about $58,000 a year, enough to eat out anytime he wanted. Now he cant remember the last time he hit the Park Avenue Restaurant and Motel for a $6.95 steak dinner. Boone County, where...
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