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Tuesday 24th of March 2026

Executive compensation Peabody [Energy Corporation] paid its executive team around $75 million from 2012 to 2014, according to its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the same period, the company lost nearly $2 billion. In 2016, Alpha Natural Resources secured a $12 million bonus package for its executives during bankruptcy proceedings, saying they should be compensated for navigating the complexities of the process. The previous year, the company lost $1.3 billion. New York Times, May 2, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Income inequality From 2004 to 2016, the average annual wage for chief executives in the coal industry grew as much as five times faster than those of lower-paying jobs in the industry, like construction or truck and tractor operator jobs. Executive pay averaged $200,000, up 60 percent from $125,000, while paychecks for truck and tractor operators rose just 15 percent, to $43,770 from $38,060. … The data excludes bonuses, share options and other perks, which often inflate executive compensation – and the pay gap – many times more. New York Times, May 2, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Parks Yellowstone is more valuable than gold mining slogan of local residents and businesses opposing efforts to allow gold mining on the fringes of Yellowstone National Park and in the upper Yellowtone River watershed © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Republicans say Letting mining companies dump waste into streams again is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Republicans say Stopping studies of how pollutants created by mountaintop-removal mining cause birth defects, cancers and respiratory diseases is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com