Do you want the EPA shutting down coal industries? I don’t think so. How would you feel if the Environmental Protection Agency comes to you or your worksite and say this coal power plant needs to be shut down immediately? Do you have another job lined up before getting laid off? These are all things former miners have had to deal with. This is what I think about the EPA shutting down coal industries. To start things off, here is one thing that might surprise you. According to The New York Times, there will be 32 coal fired power plants shut down due to new EPA regulations. This is all JUST in Michigan. According to Energy In Depth, 90,000 jobs that will be lost in the U.S. and 800,000 people will not have any jobs if the EPA gets its way.
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The sawmill workers make support beams for underground use. When the sawmill workers aren’t making the money-making support beams, they too will have to be laid off. Others may say that we need to get the global warming to stop changing but I say that we need to worry about the 800,000 people that are not even going to have a job. What is more important to you? The temperature rising a few degrees or the hundreds of people that are not even going to have a job here in the next few years. In the face of global warming and cheaper natural gas, American coal production has dropped 15% just since 2008. With more layoffs in the near future, West Virginia will soon add over 400 miners to the roughly 20,000 who have already lost their jobs.
In conclusion, this is what I think about the EPA shutting down coal industries. So many people have lost their jobs and they didn’t even count on it. Patrick Lawson, who has already been laid off says quote “I was not expecting this at all. We were expecting possibly a layoff or a section shutting down but we did not expect a closure like this. At my age, there is no way I’m goin’ back to coal mining. I mean, there is no one to give me a job. I may be working somewhere for minimum wage before it’s
The sawmill workers make support beams for underground use. When the sawmill workers aren’t making the money-making support beams, they too will have to be laid off. Others may say that we need to get the global warming to stop changing but I say that we need to worry about the 800,000 people that are not even going to have a job. What is more important to you? The temperature rising a few degrees or the hundreds of people that are not even going to have a job here in the next few years. In the face of global warming and cheaper natural gas, American coal production has dropped 15% just since 2008. With more layoffs in the near future, West Virginia will soon add over 400 miners to the roughly 20,000 who have already lost their jobs.
In conclusion, this is what I think about the EPA shutting down coal industries. So many people have lost their jobs and they didn’t even count on it. Patrick Lawson, who has already been laid off says quote “I was not expecting this at all. We were expecting possibly a layoff or a section shutting down but we did not expect a closure like this. At my age, there is no way I’m goin’ back to coal mining. I mean, there is no one to give me a job. I may be working somewhere for minimum wage before it’s