Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity. – Gloria Reuben
The coal industry is a huge industry when we’re talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways. – Gloria Reuben
It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal. – Hal Rogers
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania. – Irwin Thomas
Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using it. – James Hansen
Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries. – Allan Savory
A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the ’90s has survived the boom and bust years. – Bill Dedman
The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector. – Gautam Adani
I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests. – Frances Beinecke
If coal is going to be used, the only response – because it is the dirtiest of all fuels – is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale. – Nicholas Stern
In a lot of ways, Nauru is something like a canary in a coal mine: It’s a tiny place with more than its share of troubles, most of them the kind that might have been prevented. – Johnny Colt
There are no coal plants on the drawing board for Duke, which leaves us with gas, renewables, and nuclear. – Lynn Good
Coal mines make the news only when they explode, collapse, kill. It’s exciting! Tragedy! Fodder for a cable-news frenzy. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
I don’t meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers. – Michael Caine
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’. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
