More bad news for the coal industry with layoffs in Mississippi.

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By Emma Foehringer MerchantAug 11, 2017, 4:42 pm342 pts
The Kemper power plant in Dekalb, Mississippi, announced on Friday it would lay off 75 workers at its mine, and possibly as many as 250 workers in the energy plant as a whole. The layoffs are only the latest of the problems surrounding Kemper. The plant was designed to be the country’s first “clean coal”…

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