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McCormick was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, and raised in the Pittsburgh area. [6] [7] He attended high school in Bloomsburg.[7] [8] His father, James H. McCormick, was president of Bloomsburg University and chancellor for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. [7]
The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July 6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, [1] [2] when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars.
He argued that such trade agreements only benefited the companies while robbing the US of its tax base and blue-collar jobs. [79] Perot famously stated during the October 15 debate that NAFTA would create a "giant sucking sound" on American jobs. [80] The populism of Ross Perot is hard to define and is a contested topic amongst political ...
While CNX Resources Corp. focuses on natural gas, spin-off Consol Mining Corporation, now Consol Energy Inc. [5] focuses on coal. In 2010, Consol was the leading producer of high-BTU bituminous coal in the United States and the U.S.'s largest underground coal mining company. [6] The company employs more than 1,600 people. [7]
Katrina displaced over one million people from the central Gulf Coast to elsewhere across the United States, becoming the largest diaspora in the history of the United States. [90] Houston , Texas, had an increase of 35,000 people; Mobile, Alabama , gained over 24,000; Baton Rouge, Louisiana, over 15,000; and Hammond, Louisiana , received over ...
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas.The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened to Socal or CalSo), it is active in more than 180 countries.
Job Growth by U.S. president, measured as cumulative percentage change from month after inauguration to end of term. As of September 2020, the number of jobs was 2.7% below the January 2017 level when President Trump was inaugurated, and 7.0% below the February 2020 peak. About half of the peak-to-trough jobs lost had been regained.
Michael Jackson earned $825 million in 2016, the highest earnings for a celebrity dead or alive in any year. Since his death in mid-2009, he has topped the list every year except for 2009, 2012, and 2021–22.