Federal retirements really are sorted by hand in an old mine. Elon Musk knocked the system.
Hundreds of federal workers process thousands of retirement applications every month, by hand in a converted former mine.
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Where Coal Is Retiring, and Hanging On, in the U.S.
perched on the edge of the nation’s largest coal mine, was slated to close in 2027. But the plant’s operator recently cancelled the retirement of the 66-year-old station, according to a draft ...
How Poland’s historic Upper Silesia coal mining region is turning towards jewellery
Upper Silesia, a region in southern Poland with long historic ties to the coal industry, is marked by the blood, sweat, and tears of miners. Now, designers are taking this “black gold” and ...
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Coal gasification, an old technology, is quietly expanding across Asia
But activists and experts point out that gasified coal is still a highly polluting fossil fuel, and that relying on it prolongs coal mining ... the more than 40-year-old Unit 2 at the Matsushima ...
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Inside Ukraine’s Last Stand at a Vital Coal Mine
The mine, near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coking coal crucial for Ukraine’s steel industry. It kept running until the very last moment, when Russian forces finally reached its gates.
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New 'Time Tunnel' tells the history of coal mining
A new "time tunnel" exhibition which tells the history of British coal mining has opened in West Yorkshire. The feature, which has been created within the walls of a disused passageway once used to ...