Nor could anyone help but notice that the approval came wrapped in coal dust.
At 01:30 on Tuesday a methane and coal dust explosion occurred in the pit's South District.
Miners, their faces still streaked with coal dust, gathered for supper in Charity's cozy kitchen along with the family.
Mining experts said it could have been a methane gas explosion, a coal dust explosion, or a combination of both.
Enveloped in a smog of coal dust that softens the sunlight into a hazy glow is the An Tai Bao surface coal mine.
The explosion is similar to blasts that have occurred in industries, such as in a coal mine when coal dust in the air ignites and explodes.
Just as veins of coal lace through the Appalachian Mountains, coal dust flows through the veins of the men, women and children who live in the hollows and towns that dot those rolling hills.
One theory is that a growing mass of particulates, such as coal dust and biomass (from the widespread use of cow dung as fuel, for instance) in the air above India, now hinders rainfall.
Beside beefing up the rules to detect explosive methane or coal dust, the proposed law would make it a felony to avert safety standards and to give advance warnings that inspectors were on the premises.
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It is bliss to breathe in clean, fresh air with no coal smoke and no dust.
Two-thirds of the price was subsidized by the city, which estimates that it has replaced almost a hundred thousand coal stoves since the project began, five years ago, cutting down on sulfur and dust emissions.
Dust, which now goes on a national tour taking in small theatres in many of the former coal communities of the North, Midlands and Scotland, follows The Iron Lady in exposing festering sores from the strike and its aftermath.
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