The concept of securitization is generally associated with the Copenhagen school of security studies, which is generally taken to include Ole WÃ¦ver, Barry Buzan, and a range of other, more loosely associated, researchers.
Average annual number of employed coal miners in the United States, 1890-2014. US employment in coal mining peaked in 1923, when there were 863,000 coal miners. Since then, mechanization has greatly improved productivity in coal mining, so that employment has declined at the same time coal production increased. The average number of coal mining employees declined to 65,400 in 2015.
Instead, the focus of the Environmental Protection Agency is to eliminate coal as a fuel by creating a set of air regulations that are driven much more by political ideology than by science. The coal mining industry in the United States employs 1.16 million people. In effect, the Environmental Protection Agency, known as the EPA, is intent on eliminating many of these high paying jobs with the mantra that they will be replaced by alternative energy jobs.