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30 Jan 2008, 6:40 am
His program was suddenly cancelled because he was a man of the left and had picketed a petroleum company. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 9:44 pm
The proposal to use electricity provoked legal wrangles between the Edison and Westinghouse companies which promoted, respectively, direct and alternating current.Following the first electrocution in 1890, Dr Alfred Southwick, the chair of the commission which recommended the electric chair, was reported as saying that "we live in a higher civilisation from this day"(5) though Thomas Edison reportedly "rebuked the doctors and said it was a mistake to have… [read post]
19 Mar 2020, 10:35 am by Chris Wesner
The Murray Energy Debtors together comprise the largest privately-owned coal company in the United States, producing in 2018 alone approximately 53 million tons of thermal coal used by the electric utility industry. [read post]