Word: coal
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...Number of Russian coal miners rescued after spending six days trapped underground. Mining accidents caused 68 deaths in Russia...
...Number of Chinese coal miners killed last week near Chongqing. Mining accidents in China have killed at least 4,620 this year...
...preserve the break, the synfuel industry is lobbying intensely in Washington. The industry's Council for Energy Independence, whose members include Headwaters, GE Capital, Pacific Gas & Electric and other utilities, investment firms and coal companies, has been meeting with officials from Congress and the IRS. Says Kies, a former chief of staff of Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation, who heads the effort: "There is a lot of energy being put forth on behalf of taxpayers to force the IRS to back off of this...
...decline in crude-oil prices was partly responsible, but a larger factor was a government policy reversal. Although bullish on shale, coal and other synfuels in 1980, Washington soon cooled to the idea, as it had done in the past. After 1980, the Reagan Administration thought private industry, not government, should shoulder all the costs. Subsidies were reduced, and in 1985 the Administration killed the entire program, except for the synthetic-fuels tax credit. "The Administration no longer believes continued funding of the Synthetic Fuels Corp. serves any useful purpose," Budget Director James Miller told Congress. Former Colorado Governor Richard...
...Work. These two words actually knew each other in the roaring '90s, when companies had to pile on the good times to attract and keep the best workers. But in our postbubble corporate coal mines, fun is a memory. Nearly 3 million workers have lost jobs, and the rest of us are nervously glancing over our shoulder in the midst of 60-hour workweeks...