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The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Cole City as a town in 1873, with municipal corporate limits extending in a two-mile (3.2 km) radius from the main entrance of the Dade Coal Company coal mine. [2]
At the end of that decade, states began to enact the first laws regulating the coal mining industry: West Virginia in 1939, Indiana in 1941, Illinois in 1943, and Pennsylvania in 1945. Despite those laws, the great demand for coal during World War II led to coal being mined with little regard for environmental consequences. After the war ...
The Pittston Coal strike of 1989-1990 began as a result of a withdrawal of the Pittston Coal Group also known as the Pittston Company from the Bituminous Coal Operators Association (BCOA) and a refusal of the Pittston Coal group to pay the health insurance payments for miners who were already retired. The owner of the Pittston company at the ...
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As Georgia Power prepares to shutter a massive Middle Georgia coal power plant over the next decade, it also faces several lawsuits from residents over the plant’s impact on their drinking water.
In one document, the EPA shared a table describing how coal ash at some monitoring wells was found to be sometimes a dozen feet deep in the water flowing through the Northwest Georgia topography.
In 2009, coal represented 57 percent of the company's output, followed by nuclear (23%) and natural gas (16%). Renewable hydroelectric power represented 4 percent of Southern's generation. Coal-based generation dropped significantly in 2009 from an average of 70% between 2005 and 2008. [14] As of 2017 Coal-based generation had dropped to 30%. [15]
Clarence "Dean" Alford (born July 17, 1953) is a former Republican Party member of the Georgia General Assembly and convicted criminal.. Alford is the president and chief executive officer of Allied Energy Services, LLC and spokesman for Power4Georgians, LLC, which company was originally organized by an employee of Allied Energy Services, LLC.