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As the bankruptcy clock ticks down, Blackjewel may permanently cease operations at Eagle Butte and Belle Ayr, leaving new owners to segue into mine reclamation instead.

“In the environmental and economic turmoil of the current moment, climate activists have an opportunity to build genuine solidarity with fossil-fuel workers like those on the tracks in Harlan County.”

Lawmakers are drafting legislation to enforce a statute that requires coal companies to post payroll bonds “to make sure our miners don’t get screwed over.”

A small program through Coconino Community College in Page, Ariz., suggests a model that can expand the skills of a workforce that for years has supported the soon-to-be defunct Navajo Generating Station.

The ongoing decline coal industry in Kentucky and West Virginia has forced a deep reassessment among workers: “What we’ve been doing is trying to transition into the 21st century and get on past coal.”

A call for stronger state leadership in Montana and Wyoming to address “the displacement and financial devastation to families and communities” that stands only to worsen.

Republican and Democratic administrations alike have interrupted supply chains when companies do not pay employees, precedent that may already “have cleared the path for a nonpartisan, positive reception.”

“We are not at war with fossil fuel workers,” said the leader of the national Green Party. "We are not willing to leave any part of Canada or any community behind."

The company is discarding 295 employees even though Kayenta miners have the very skills needed for required reclamation work, which will take years to complete and require a sizeable workforce.

Retraining, union jobs, pension-fund integrity and assurances that workers “play a role in shaping the economic transformation as we shift to a zero-emissions economy” are all essential policy pieces.