{"id":57227,"date":"2017-05-06T21:02:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T04:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/as-coal-jobs-decline-solar-sector-shines"},"modified":"2017-05-06T21:02:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T04:02:49","slug":"as-coal-jobs-decline-solar-sector-shines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/as-coal-jobs-decline-solar-sector-shines","title":{"rendered":"As Coal Jobs Decline, Solar Sector Shines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/as-coal-jobs-decline-solar-sector-shines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A work crew for the Pittsburgh company Energy Independent Solutions installs solar panels at a community building in Millvale, Pa.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Williams is still mining coal despite tough times for the business. \u201cWe\u2019re one of the last industries around and hope to keep it that way,\u201d he says in a breakroom at Consol Energy\u2019s Harvey mine, south of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The father of two \u2014 speaking in his dusty work jacket and a hard hat with headlamp \u2014 says coal is the best way he\u2019s able to support his family. He declines to give his salary, but nationally, coal miners average about $80,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/story\/2017\/05\/06\/234865\/as_coal_jobs_decline_solar_sector_shines?source=npr&category=economy\">http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/story\/2017\/05\/06\/234865\/as_coal_job...ry=economy<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A work crew for the Pittsburgh company Energy Independent Solutions installs solar panels at a community building in Millvale, Pa. Craig Williams is still mining coal despite tough times for the business. \u201cWe\u2019re one of the last industries around and hope to keep it that way,\u201d he says in a breakroom at Consol Energy\u2019s Harvey [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1878,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-employment","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}