Geographically, the counties with the lowest life expectancy for women were in Appalachia and the South.
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Recent discoveries in gas zones in Appalachia and east Texas make Cabot's properties more attractive.
The Houston-based company has operations in the U.S. Gulf Coast, mid-continent, Rockies, and Appalachia.
But Appalachia is very different indeed from Scots Presbyterianism in culture as well, whatever the DNA similarities.
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By comparison, the coal mining industry in all of Appalachia employs 31, 000 people, says the National Mining Association.
Burkesville sits amid rolling hills near the Tennessee-Kentucky state line along the Cumberland River, in the Appalachia region.
The shift from coal is reverberating across Appalachia, where mining companies are laying off workers and cutting production.
Appalachia for example, was largely populated by what you Americans call the Scotch Irish, and we English call Scots Presbyterians.
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Indeed, there have been books on how Appalachia is different from the rest of the US for precisely this reason.
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Jim Webb, a senator from neighbouring Virginia, has noted that much of the population of Appalachia is of Scots-Irish descent.
He has never had much of a following in Appalachia: Hillary Clinton thumped him in the primaries in the region in 2008.
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Massey now has a third of Central Appalachia's proven and probable reserves.
Well, one thing, when we left Washington and arrived in Appalachia and arrived in the Mississippi Delta and arrived in East St.
Massey Energy is the fourth largest coal company in the United States and the largest in Central Appalachia based on produced coal revenue.
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Grundfest used Massey Energy, which operates mines throughout Appalachia, as an example of how shareholders can exert power on a company through corporate governance.
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Shell said it hopes to be one of the first companies to volunteer to have its operations in Appalachia go through the independent review.
Simply, all the intelligence out of Australia and Appalachia points to higher pricing, some 10 percent on high quality metallurgic grade coal next year.
"This is something new, " said Bruce Niemeyer, president of Chevron Appalachia.
Every week, people from as far away as the Ukraine or as close as Appalachia send Mr. Gettle their own heirloom seeds, each with a story.
Wildfires are projected to be more likely than normal in parts of Southern California, Hawaii and Appalachia in coming months, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
Blankenship has kept Massey focused stubbornly on Central Appalachia, where a century of digging has left seams mostly too short and thin to mine profitably at current prices.
Lyndon Johnson visited Appalachia and said much the same thing.
The prescription drug epidemic that is sweeping the country began in Appalachia, Dreyzehner said, and Tennessee is in crisis because significant portions of the state are in that region.
The coal produced in the region is ridiculously cheaper even if we consider its increasing price and lower energy output in terms of BTU per ton compared with Appalachia coal.
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This has led to comparisons with Appalachia, which has also relied on a declining extractive industry (coal mining) and has suffered from high unemployment, poverty and a relatively unskilled workforce.
Leroy won instant fame after writing two novels based on a horrific childhood: Leroy claimed to be a former cross-dressing teenage prostitute from Appalachia who had worked truck stops in West Virginia.
Now, that's a low bar, given -- (laughter.) But there was a team from Tennessee that had designed a self-powered water filtration plant so that homes in Appalachia could have access to clean water.
Before leaving for law school in China I jumped in my little red truck, threw my newly bought old-time banjo in the back, and went on a road trip through Appalachia to learn some old-time American music.
Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from harm.
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