Last Ones Standing in Coal

Currently, there are fewer than 40,000 people working in the American coal industry. Yet nearly 15 million people — about 5 percent of the country’s population — live in communities that depend on the industry for their local economies, tax revenues and property values. Last year, coal exports brought the country $5 billion in revenue. Click here to read an article by:Natalia Galicza published in Desert News.