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From:Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 120, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedWestern coal mining employment benefited from rising demand for the region's low-sulfur coal, bolstering prices. Surface mining in the region is also more mechanized, making output per miner hour three- to five-times...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 105, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCoal is critical for the continued economic growth of the U.S. Not only does coal account for 50 percent of the electricity generated in this country, it also accounts for 90 percent of energy reserves. Worldwide, coal...
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From:Journal of Economic Issues (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWomen have contributed significantly to the successful outcome of the strike staged by workers at Pittston Coal Group mines on April 5, 1989. The women joined the picket lines and informed businesses about the strike's...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 105, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe National Coal Council says that existing coal-burning power plants in the U.S. could be expanded with relatively modest effort to add another 40,000 MW to the nation's electricity supply. The group has presented a...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 105, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDespite the fact that it currently produces more than half the electricity in the U.S., over the past two decades coal has remained a slumbering energy giant in terms of new capacity. Now, the giant is stirring. Soaring...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 103, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedMANY FACTORS MUST BE EVALUATED WHEN CONSIDERING A SWITCH OR BLEND OF WESTERN COALS, INCLUDING MATERIALS HANDLING, MILL IMPACTS, LOW- AND HIGH-TEMPERATURE FOULING TENDENCIES, FLAME STABILITY AND EMISSIONS IMPACTS....
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedLarge-scale coal-fired power plants are certainly not on many (if any) drawing Boards in the engineering offices of electric utilities and independent power producers. Gas is king, and is expected to remain king for the...
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From:Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 117, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Bituminous Coal Operators Association and the United Mine Workers ended their strike and signed a 5-yr labor contract covering 60,000 miners. Tenets of the contract include job security, wage increases of 50 cents an...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 105, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) has begun offering the first-ever coal transportation option contracts. The contracts provide utilities, mines and others with the opportunity to lock in...
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From:The Ecologist (Vol. 30, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe Dine (Navajo) people have lived on the Black Mesa, Grand Canyon, for at least 400 years. In 1951, the richest known deposit of coal in the US was found in the area. Shortly afterwards, a lease with Peabody Coal, the...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 105, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWestmoreland Coal and Montana-Dakota Utilities are working on a joint venture to build a 500 MW lignite-fired power project at the inactive Gascoyne mine site in southwest North Dakota. The Lignite Energy Council has...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 100, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedGood maintenance practices and proactive planning are essential to ensure coal handling equipment performance, but a look at the entire cost of handling coal has yielded some surprising conclusions. Optimizing a given...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 110, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedWyoming and West Virginia are the only two states that can meet the nation's growing appetite for coal, the chairman of one of the nation's largest coal companies has said. Steve Leer, chairman of Arch Coal, spoke to...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 105, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe merger of Encal Energy Ltd. and Calpine Corp. has been completed. The transaction provides Calpine with a trillion cubic feet of proved and probable natural gas reserves and access to firm natural gas transportation...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 104, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedELECTRIC UTILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES ANNUALLY GENERATE MORE THAN 100 MILLION TONS OF HIGH-VOLUME coal combustion by-products (CCB) including fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag and flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) sludge....
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From:Hydrocarbon Processing (Vol. 79, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 98, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAdvanced coal cleaning techniques reaching commercialization can help to keep coal-fired power generation cost effective and meet stringent 1990s emissions regulations Seventy-seven percent of coal mined in the...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 98, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedU.S. bituminous coal exports amounted to 74 million tons in 1993, a 27% drop from the previous year's level of 102 million tons, according to the National Coal Association's annual international report. The...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 64, Issue 20)EVER SINCE an order of nuns founded Marywood University, in Scranton, Pa., in 1915, its administrators have faced unusual challenges. As Bill Conlogue relates in Undermined in Coal Country: On the Measures in a...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 105, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedINCREASING THE PRODUCTIVE USE OF COAL COMBUSTION BYPRODUCTS IS A WIN-WIN-WIN PROPOSITION. LESS MATERIAL IS BURIED SAVING DISPOSAL COSTS, ELECTRICITY FROM COAL GETS A LITTLE BIT CHEAPER DUE TO REDUCED DISPOSAL AND...