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Environment & Energy

get the red out

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3. There could be additional industries

Reply to Kolesar (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 17, 2017, 11:07 AM

Feb 2017

But people won't leave their past. Now the drug problem is horrific there. I grew up in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. In the 70s there was a coal boom, most of my friends' dads worked in, or around the coal industry then. That was a long time ago and it's not coming back.

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Trump overturns rules on coal mining debris with new legislation [View all] Kolesar Feb 2017 OP

Who do they cry to get the red out Feb 2017 #1

If I lived in WV, I would rather run a sportsman's store than dig coal Kolesar Feb 2017 #2

There could be additional industries get the red out Feb 2017 #3

So basically. . . RexCasual Feb 2017 #4