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1990-1999 takes over as president of the UMWA. Roberts, a sixth generation coal miner from West Virginia, has served as vice president of the UMWA since 1982 and played a key role in union negotiating teams. Roberts restruc- tures the UMWA during February 1996. The union's 16 districts are reorganized into 10 districts. The UMWA ratified a new contract with BCOA by a record margin in December 1997, nine months before the agreement is set to expire (August 1998). Both sides pushed to complete negotiations well in advance so they could join forces to defeat the Kyoto Protocol, which was also signed in early December in Japan. The new five-year agree- ment spans January 1998 to January 2003. Coal Age Returns During September 1990, the former man- aging editor of Coal Age, Paul C. Merritt, replaces Mark Sprouls as editor of COAL. Merritt expresses his opinion on a com- mentary page facing the inside back cover. In 1991, Steve Fiscor, a mining engineer, who worked at a longwall operation in Colorado, joins the editorial team as a tech- nical editor for COAL and Engineering & Mining Journal (E&MJ;). In August 1992, Merrittt retires, but remains on the masthead as Editor Emeritus. Art Sanda is appointed editor of COAL. Sanda does not initially offer a com- mentary column, but he does offer the industry an opportunity to voice its opinion through a series of surveys. In June 1994, Fiscor is promoted to managing editor, COAL. Russ Carter is still working as the western field editor. COAL branches out into international coverage with extended coverage in several editions. The editors are dispatched globally to document international coal activities. The first report covers Latin American coal in March 1995. Sanda dives into China with a two-part series documenting the Chinese coal industry, which at the time was produc- ing about 1.2 billion mt. The industry is split into 626 mines controlled by the central gov- The return of Coal Age. *Coal Age,September 1996 ernment, producing 490 million mt, and an unknown number of privately-held mines producing the remaining 700 million mt. It is the first time the Chinese coal industry is well-documented in English. During July 1996, COAL is recognized for editorial excellence at the Jesse H. Neal Awards in New York. COAL's Entry "International Focus," was one of five final- ists in the best subject-related series of arti- cles category for its class. During this healthy period for the maga- zine, Intertec Publishing, a U.S. trade pub- lisher with several farming and industrial titles, buys the Maclean Hunter's U.S. trade publications and associated business in March 1995. Eventually Kravitz, Kravitz, and Kohlberg (K-III Publishing), a group that specializes in leveraged buyouts, buys Intertec Publishing. The K-III name is rebranded as Primedia. Editorial. *Coal Age, June 1997 170 www.coalage.com What both Sanda and Fiscor both notice at home and abroad while covering stories is that readers still refer to the magazine as Coal Age. Maclean Hunter changed Coal Mining & Processing name to Coal Mining because it lacked recognition. After eight years, it seemed merging the titles into COAL also lacked the same brand recognition. At this point all of the Maclean Hunter people had been fired or retired so Sanda and Fiscor decide to re-launch the name Coal Age for MINExpo 1996. The Coal Age mast is restored with the September 1996 edition. The magazine sports a snazzy redesign. A small retrospective documents the maga- zine's 85-year history. Sanda places a com- mentary with his photo at the beginning of the magazine and, for the first time, readers can clearly identify an editor with the title. 100th Anniversary Special Issue August 2012

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