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Miners testify pollution controls could push coal jobs overseas
2014-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times: Coal miners clad in United Mine Workers of America camouflage T-shirts passionately described Friday how the Environmental Protection Agencys proposed Clean Power Plan will devastate the U.S. coal industry. If I lose my job, I wont have the money to make purchases, said Mike Payton, a Marion County, W.Va., coal miner testified during the last day of EPA hearings about its proposal, part of President Obamas Climate Action Plan, which would cut hundreds of millions of tons of carbon pollution...
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