Quotes About Coal

Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic.

Coal is cheap, but up to what extent are we going to allow coal plants to operate?

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.

Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how hard the industry will fall.

If you want improvements in coal, you've got to keep people in the business.

The advancement of coal research will benefit Wyoming, its people, and the coal industry. I fully support it.

A coal mine greets you with only one sentiment, then hammers it: 'This is not a place for people. This is not a place for people. This is not a place for people'.

Coal is a big deal here in Wyoming.

I don't see any new coal.

I certainly would like to see the war on coal come to an end.

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.

As a member of both the energy and environment committees, I am constantly astounded by how many of my colleagues prefer to focus on what the government can do for the nuclear or coal industries rather than why the government should support clean and sustainable energy.

We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins.

Britain needs a diverse energy mix - home grown renewables, new nuclear, a switch from dirty coal to cleaner gas, and, when the technology is ready, carbon capture and storage. Diversity will keep the lights on and ensure we go green at the lowest possible cost.

Many coal-fired power plants are being decommissioned or switched over to natural gas, but that takes a long time.

Despite the frequent use of coal miners as a potent political symbol, coal jobs are disappearing - and they're not coming back.

Wood use peaked in the United States at 70 percent in 1870. (It had peaked about a century earlier in Britain.2) Thirty years later, in 1900, coal commanded that 70 percent of US demand, and wood use was declining.

For decades to come, the English would burn coal primarily for home heating. The new fuel had still to be adapted to perform useful work. Burning it at home was straightforward; adapting it to industrial production, challenging and complex. Homes needed only a hearth with a chimney. Industry needed changes in coal's very chemistry. In the meantime, increasing demand soon exhausted the superficial outcroppings of sea coal.

Adding to the smoke of burning coal, from about the middle of the eighteenth century, the "dark Satanic mills" of William Blake's 1808 poem "Jerusalem" began strewing their blight across England's green and pleasant land.

Gesner's US patents were issued in June 1854. For feedstock, his company would initially use cannel coal from New Brunswick.

Some minerals—iron ore, coal—remain fixed where they are found and can be counted as property. Others—water, oil, natural gas—move underground in unknown channels, sometimes to the detriment of other potential users.