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I want to be respected by my peers and do really great work, even if it gets panned, even if I get raked across the coals.
Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be.
If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port
It's like miners' coal dust underneath your fingernails. Very difficult to scrub out. I'm a social democrat to my fingertips.
If I'd not been a coal miner in the past, getting up very early, I wouldn't have been able to have done what I've been doing.
I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.
Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.
Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.
Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning.
We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins.
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.
Some people, such as the unemployed coal miners and steelworkers of the Rust Belt, have been left behind by growing prosperity.
Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.
Despite the frequent use of coal miners as a potent political symbol, coal jobs are disappearing - and they're not coming back.
I strongly support an 'all-of-the-above' energy policy that includes additional development of wind, clean coal, and bio-fuels.
The European Union should come up with a solid plan to help especially Poland and Slovakia make this transition away from coal.
Not only are utilities switching from coal and oil to gas, but also trucking, schoolbuses, garbage trucks, and even taxi fleets.
The coal industry in West Virginia, when it is down, people can't buy cars; people can't eat in restaurants. Everything suffers.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
But my family is connected to coal. There's hardly anybody in West Virginia that doesn't have a connection to the coal industry.
We have more natural resources - coal, oil, wind - across the board not only to be energy independent but to be a leading exporter.
It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.
I was born here in West Virginia, though I spent a little time in North Carolina when my step-dad got laid off from the coal mines.
Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
The Obama administration and its allies, such as the Sierra Club, tried to kill coal because of their obsession with global warming.
Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.
I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.
The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.
As I've said repeatedly over the last few years, the war on coal was not a result of anything Congress passed; there was no legislation.
First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.
I learned in the Marines to leave no one behind, but after 34 years in Washington, Mitch McConnell left our coal miners behind years ago.
Thatcherite economic policy was most acutely felt in the coal industry, where tens of thousands of jobs were lost as pits were shut down.
The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.
The increase in coal production and the efficiency in coal movement are all administrative things that can add a lot to the economic growth.
We don't want to leave the coal in the ground, and that necessarily is going to involve better technology with regard to clean uses of coal.
The big problem for atomic energy is that it can't compete on price with the new age of cheap shale gas and, to a lesser extent, clean coal.
My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.
I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
I've done everything imaginable as a mother and a coal miner's daughter to create a brighter future for our children, and it fell on deaf ears.
There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.
The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.
I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first people in my family to go to university.