For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia – and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs. – Jeff Goodell
Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal. – Jeff Goodell
It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone. – Orville Redenbacher
The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments. – Richard Price
Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action. – Susan Collins
Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world. – Tim Holden
Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn’t had tuberculosis when I was 12. – Tom Jones
Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil companies extract it from the ground in a sloppy manner – methane is far more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide – it can wipe out all the advantages of natural gas over coal. – Thomas Friedman
My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then. – Tim Murphy
