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Benefits of Mining
- The value
of coal produced in the United States each year is nearly $18
billion.
| Source:
EIA, Annual Energy Review 2001, T.7.8, and T.7.2 |
- Coal is
directly responsible for the existence of more than 90,000 U.S.
jobs and nearly one million jobs directly and indirectly.
| Source:
EIA,
Western Economic Analysis Center (WEAC), 1998, p. 17 |
- Coal mining
has a combined direct and indirect impact of $161 billion annually
on the U.S. economy. This is $596 for every U.S. citizen.
| Source:
WEAC
1998, p. 17; EIA Annual Energy Review 1998, T.E1 |
- Individual
Americans and their families receive a significant amount of
personal income as a result of coal mining's monetary contributions
to the economy: $37 billion annually, or nearly 1percent of
all earnings received by the country's workers.
| Source:
WEAC
1998, p. 17; U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Wages
Annual Analysis 1998, p. 6 |
- Every
state, even those without reserves or mining, benefits economically
in some way from U.S. coal production. In fact, California and
New York, two states without coal mining, are among those that
benefit the most from combined direct and indirect economic
impacts.
- The federal
government receives more than $11 billion annually in taxes
and fees from the coal industry.
- State
and local governments receive nearly $9 billion each year in
revenues.
- Developing
countries' demand for coal will double through 2020, according
to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
| Source:
EIA, International Energy Outlook 2001,
p.177 |
- Production
rates have reached an average of more than six tons per miner
per hour, or nearly 52 tons in a single eight-hour day. In 1945,
there were 390,382 coal miners (includes anthracite) who averaged
almost six tons of coal production a day.
| Source:
EIA,
Annual Energy Review 2001, T.7.6; Coal Data: A Reference
1998, pages 48-51 |
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