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Source: Matt Egan, CNN, 4/20/21
Coal country is in free fall and is pleading for help from Washington. That's why the largest union in one of the dirtiest industries is broadly backing President Joe Biden's $2 trillion green infrastructure package -- an ambitious plan that has also won support from climate activists. "Anybody who would not accept jobs where jobs are desperately needed is making a horrendous mistake," Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, the country's largest mine workers union, told CNN Business on Tuesday. For more of this story, click here.
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