West Virginia training program restores hope for jobless coal miners – CBS News


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The recent boom in renewable energy has impacted the coal industry. But new labor opportunities are coming in the form of a community-based nonprofit in West Virginia that is teaching unemployed coal miners valuable job skills that they can use to transition careers. Mark Strassmann has details.

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