Front Porch Blog

April 7, 2006

MTR: Fact of the Day #1

JW Randolph

West Virginia mining, at its peak, employed nearly 150,000 workers…

…it now employs just 15,000 – a drop of 90%. This is largely due to the automation of labor on MTR sites. Coal production remains roughly the same.

Get the Facts on Mountaintop Removal

Photo by Vivian Stockman, www.ohvec.org

JW Randolph

Raised on the banks of the Tennessee River, JW's work to create progress in his home state and throughout Appalachia has been featured on the Rachel Maddow Show, The Daily Kos and Grist. He served first as Appalachian Voices’ Legislative Associate and then Tennessee director until leaving to pursue a career in medicine in 2012.

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