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Public and Planet to 'Pay the Price' as Trump Props Up Coal With $625 Million Bailout
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this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
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Let's see:
On one hand, you could put money into new and nearly well established technologies that get more per dollar return on investment.
Or...
Just keep patting your buddies on the backs and continue to give people black lung. Not-so-fun-fact, modern coal industry workers are getting black lung and retiring faster than the older workers in more senior positions in the mines. Why? The newer machinery is so much more powerful and efficient at the job, the younger works literally cannot avoid literally getting black lung.
Are they going to be investing in more remote controlled robotics and ppe for this? Lmao who am I kidding of course not.