coal industry
Black rock business
The coal industry encompasses the mining, processing, and sale of coal as fuel or raw material.
Once central to industrial economies, it powered steam engines, steel mills, and electrical generation.
The industry has declined in many countries due to environmental concerns and competition from cleaner energy sources: Coal industry jobs have disappeared from Appalachian towns.
Discussions of the coal industry often invoke debates about climate change, economic transition, and working-class communities.
- ligniteLow-rank sedimentary fuel
- black lungCoal dust respiratory disease
- cokeCarbonized coal fuel
- black goldSlang for petroleum
- carbon emissionsReleased greenhouse gases
draglines · canary · mine collapse · colliery · steel production · strip mining · nationalization · electricity generation · underground mining · labor strikes · greenhouse gases · dirty energy · carbon taxes · seam · pickaxe · smokestacks · shaft · bituminous
- Kuzbassmetallurgy
- Postwar FranceCharles de Gaulle, de Gaulle, Marshall Plan, economic boom, modernization
- postwar GermanyWest Germany, East Germany, divided Germany, Iron Curtain, Federal Republic
- British EconomyBank of England, pound sterling, sterling, GDP, budget deficit
- disinformationdisinformation, misinformation, misinformation campaigns, fake news, propaganda
- West GermanyBonn, Federal Republic, Bundestag, Bundesrat, Deutsche Mark
coal industryrenewable energy
Self-replenishing natural power
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