Quotes About Coal

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

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.

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

In Virginia, much of the head-in-the-sand attitude toward climate change can be traced to the political power of the fossil fuel industry, especially Big Coal. Dominion Energy, the state's biggest electric power company, is also one of the biggest coal burners in America.

She was powered by a coal-fired, 350-hp steam engine, capable of driving her at speeds up to 10.2

the engineer, and of his fireman turning

I voted against H.R. 1119, which would weaken emissions standards for coal refuse power plants.

To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.

I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear.

To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.

When we first invested in Colombia, we were buying a lot of coal from Colombia. We were dealing with them daily. I knew their guys at the port, I knew their guys at the mine, I had a feel of the country.

When the power grid gets compromised the coal from Appalachia can be trucked to our power plants so they can be put back on line as quickly as possible.

Every coal miner I talked to had, in his history, at least one story of a cave-in. 'Yeah, he got covered up,' is a way coal miners refer to fathers and brothers and sons who got buried alive.

Until I met Timmy I'd always thought coffee was a mineral that occurred in nature as tiny crystals and was mined like coal.

Once this feedback loop crosses a critical threshold it will gather an unstoppable momentum, and all the ice in the polar regions will melt even if humans stop burning coal, oil, and gas. Therefore it is not enough that we recognize the danger we face. It is critical that we actually do something about it now.

A girl about her own age reached out and took hold of her hand. The girl was tall and thin. She had long black hair streaked with red, and the whites of her green eyes stood out against the black coal dust that covered her face. Her blue and white dress hung in tatters, and was blackened by coal dust and smeared with blood. The girl smiled and Rosie could see that in her other hand she was holding her red umbrella.

A Diamond is born only after the Coal withstands tremendous pressure, and endures enormous heat for thousands of years. Creation and Cultivation of Beauty doesn't happen just by chance!

With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together.

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

I, for one - despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all have parts of their state where that really matters.

You can't take a coal miner making $95,000 a year, the only work in these parts where you can support a family without having to hold down three jobs at once... and tell them, 'You can make minimum wage,' or, 'We can give you job training for jobs that don't exist in West Virginia.'