Coal

Coal

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How dead is coal in New York?

In November 2002, New York generated 2,100 gigawatt hours of electricity from coal.
In November 2016, New York generated 22 gigawatt hours of electricity from coal.

It’s been five and half years (July 2011) since the state has produced more then 1,000 gigawatt hours of electricity in any particular month from coal.

We are down to two utility-scale power plants that burn coal, Kintigh Generating Station in Somerset, Niagara County (slated for retirement) and Cayuga Operating Station in Tompkins County, north of Ithaca (slated for conversation to natural gas).

Abandoned Mines In PA That Pose An Extreme Health Or Safety Impact

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This data set portrays the approximate location of Abandoned Mine Land Problem Areas containing public health, safety, and public welfare problems created by past coal mining. It is a subset of data contained in the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) Abandoned Mine Land Inventory. This layer identifies AML Points representing specific locations within an AML Inventory Site, examples include AML discharge.

Data Source: PASDA. Abandoned Mine Land Inventory Points. Filtered by sites listed as posing an "Extreme Health or Safety Risk".

Feds Lower Coal Mine Cleanup Funding for Pennsylvania – The Allegheny Front

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Feds Lower Coal Mine Cleanup Funding for Pennsylvania – The Allegheny Front

Pennsylvania is receiving less money from the federal government this year to clean up its old abandoned mines.

The state is getting $32 million from the federal government’s Abandoned Mine Land (AML) reclamation grant this year, down from the $55 million it got last year. The drop is mostly because a one-time funding stream ended last year. That money came from funds originally withheld from states and American Indian tribes when the abandoned mine fund program was re-authorized in 2006.

Another factor is a decline in revenues the program receives from a per-ton fee on active coal mining. The money brought in by the fee — which is set to expire next year — has been dwindling as the country moves away from coal. The Energy Information Administration estimated that coal production declined another 9 percent last year, and expects another 14 percent decline this year.

Miners block coal from leaving Pike County after weeks without pay

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“Somebody’s gotta stand up”: Miners block coal from leaving Pike County after weeks without pay

About a dozen miners are still on the tracks in Kimper Tuesday, enduring the rainy weather as they demand the pay they are owed. Pike County miners are blocking a train loaded with coal from leaving a mine in Kimper.

About 50 employees claim they have not been paid since mid-December.

"I'm starving. I about lost everything I own and I'm tired of it," said one miner. "Somebody's gotta stand up to these guys and I guess it's us."

Around 12:30 p.m. miners said they could see a pay stub for two weeks' pay show up in their work accounts, but the money has not arrived in their bank accounts yet.

West Virginia coal wars – Wikipedia

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West Virginia coal wars – Wikipedia

The West Virginia coal wars (1912–21), also known as the mine wars, arose out of a dispute between coal companies and miners.

The first workers strike, in West Virginia, was the Cabin Creek and Paint Creek strike of 1912-1913. With help from Mary "Mother Jones" Harris Jones, an important figure in unionizing the mine workers, the miners demanded better pay, better work conditions, the right to trade where they pleased (ending the practice of forcing miners to buy from company-owned stores), and recognition of the United Mine Workers (UMW).

The mining companies refused to meet the demands of the workers and instead hired Baldwin-Felts agents equipped with high-powered rifles to guard the mines and act as strikebreakers.[2][1] After the Agents arrived, the miners either moved out or were evicted from the houses they had been renting from the coal companies, and moved into coal camps that were being supported by the Union.[1] Approximately 35,000 people lived in these coal camps.

Port of Albany expansion to create jobs, contribute to green initiative, but buried coal ash has local residents concerned for environment

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Spotlight News – DISCOVER GLENMONT: Port of Albany expansion to create jobs, contribute to green initiative, but buried coal ash has local residents concerned for environment

The burned a lot of coal at the Bethlehem Steam Station between 1955 and 1980, although because the plant lacked pollution controls, probably the bottom ash is less toxic then modern plants.