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2. Coal mining in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   Starting in the 1960s coal seams in both Kentucky coal fields have been increasingly accessed via a method known as Mountaintop Removal Mining, which is a form of surface mining that involves the topographical alteration and/or removal of a summit, summit ridge, or significant portion of a mountain, hill, or ridge in order to obtain a desired ...

3. United Mine Workers of America - Wikipedia

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   Diana Baldwin and Anita Cherry, hired as miners in 1973, are believed to have been the first women to work in an underground coal mine in the United States. They were the first female members of UMWA to work inside a mine. [21] [22] [23] Cherry and Baldwin were hired by the Beth-Elkhorn Coal Company in Jenkins, Kentucky.

4. Eastern Kentucky Coalfield - Wikipedia

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   From 2012 to 2014, "Appalachian" Kentucky—which includes all of the Eastern Coalfield and several counties in South Central Kentucky and a few in the eastern part of the Bluegrass region—had a three-year average unemployment rate of 9.8%, compared with 7.6% statewide and 7.2% nationwide. [14]

5. Kentucky has a long history of coal mining disasters. These ...

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   The collapse of a coal mining plant in Eastern Kentucky ... Working at coal plants is one of the most dangerous jobs in America ... An explosion at Finley Mine on Hurricane Creek, near Hyden in ...

6. Distillery, commercial bakery companies will bring more than ...

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   Bakery Express MidWest, a commercial bakery manufacturing company, is opening a $10 million facility in Boone County that will create over 175 full-time jobs in Northern Kentucky.

7. ‘Transformational’ Kentucky renewable energy project on old ...

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   The federal government has awarded $81 million to develop a renewable-energy project in southeastern Kentucky projected to create about 1,500 jobs during the construction phase.