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For comparison, coal employs about 77k people. About the same as the bowling and skiing employment numbers.
by JohnTHaller 10y ago
For comparison, coal employs about 77k people. About the same as the bowling and skiing employment numbers.
- djrogers 10y agoThat 77k is only the mining/fuel side, if you include the power generation side of the coal industry the number is a little over double that at 160k [1]https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/01/f34/2017%20US%20Energy%20and%20Jobs%20Report_0.pdf https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/01/f34/2017%20U...