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West Virginia training program restores hope for jobless coal miners
CBS News via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMingo County, West Virginia — In West Virginia's hollers, deep in Appalachia, jobless coal miners...
West Virginia cash-for-worker program welcomes new residents
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA program offering $20,000 in cash and incentives for remote workers to move to West Virginia as...
West Virginia coal country will test power of Democrats' climate bill
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCHARLESTON, W.Va. - Travis Elswick used to spend his days detonating millions of tons of explosives,...
A playground was built on coal ash. What it means for kids in this East Tennessee town
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIn the hills of East Tennessee, just a half hour outside Knoxville, is a wood-framed playground that...
N.S. lifts stop-work order 5 months after roof falls at Donkin mine
CBC via Yahoo News· 5 months agoNova Scotia's Department of Labour has lifted a stop-work order more than five months after a pair...
Baltimore port workers are ‘living in a dream’ as harbor remains blocked
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 2 months agoDino Martinez, a tugboat captain in Baltimore’s harbor, feels as if he’s “living in a dream” since...
Wow, Did Joe Biden Go On A Regulation Tear This Week
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThis article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. President Joe Biden may have just had one of the most...
Environmental, labor groups join forces to fight climate change
Times West Virginian, Fairmont via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJun. 22—FAIRMONT — Sandy Cress, of Fairmont, first became so involved in climate change activism two decades ago that she said she had to pull back. Twenty years later, Cress remains concerned ...
Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human
TechCrunch· 12 months agoMechanical Turk is a service that from its earliest days seemed to invite shenanigans, and indeed...
Community, miners' families remember Farmington No. 9 Mine Disaster
Times West Virginian, Fairmont via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNov. 21—MANNINGTON — United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts apologized for having folks out in below-freezing temperatures on Sunday afternoon. But, he wanted to have the service ...
