Rex Tillerson

We've recognized that natural gas would be the fastest-growing of the conventional fuels: oil, natural gas, coal. And so, we see the important role that natural gas will play globally and, more importantly, the important role it will play in the U.S. in terms of meeting future energy demand.

American Businessman

Nick Clooney

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

American Politician

Homer Hickam

Throughout my childhood, when I raised my blanket in the morning, I saw a black, sparkling powder float off it. My socks were always black with coal dirt when I took off my shoes at night.

American Author

Jeff Goodell

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.

Fred Upton

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.

Buddha

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.

Leader

George Blanda

Life isn't that complicated. I'm completely happy playing football. I'm happy to get out of the coal mines.

American Football Player

Dennis Skinner

The personality cult of the ego does not work down a coal mine and it does not work in the Labour party.

British Politician

Mary Harris Jones

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

American Activist

Fatih Birol

Turkish Economist

Coal is often associated with power generation and historical industrial use.

Energy Source

Burning coal is controversial due to air pollution and climate change.

Environmental Concern

Coal is a symbol of an old-fashioned way of heating and energy production.

Cultural Symbol

Coals remain after burning and still give off heat, ideal for campfires.

Heating Element

Glowing coal is commonly used to evoke a sense of warmth or nostalgia.

Visual Imagery

Coal as a verb is mainly used in industrial or historical contexts.

Industrial Usage

Using coal as a verb implies an action of powering or refueling.

Fueling Action

Coal-black indicates an intense, deep black, often associated with richness.

Dark Color

Receiving coal is tied to the concept of undesirability or failure to meet expectations.

Naughty Reward

The idea of coal as a punishment links to Western Christmas folklore.

Cultural Tradition

 that might be happening deep beneath our feet. Fracking's biggest controversy, though, is happening above the ground. The general consensus is that burning natural gas is better for the environment than burning coal since the gas collected from fracking emits only half the carbon dioxide as coal

How does fracking work?...

 It won't be out of place in a zombie apocalypse film. It wouldn't at all. Feels like it would be very easy to die here. That thing is incredible there. And that's the that's the main headgear that brought up all that coal and over its lifetime, it brought up twenty four million tons of coal.

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 instead of letting it escape. So now the question is how do we remove that bad stuff as well? That's the idea behind cleaner coal. Creating cleaner coal is really about trying to contain its ill effects with the help of special technologies that make the end product more acceptable.

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 in the mountains and love the mountains, the idea that a coal company had the right to blow up an entire mountain and wipe it off the map forever was just unconscionable. These places are not just sort of physically important to people, but they are spiritually important to people.

Coal Mining's...

 mostly from sunlight, life on Earth as we know it would cease to exist. We humans, of course, spend our energy doing a lot of things besides eating. We travel, we build, we power all sorts of technology. To do all this, we use sources like fossil coal, oil, and natural gas,

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 These local benefits are helpful in the short term, but pollution from mining and burning coal is spread across the entire atmosphere and sticks around for thousands of years. There are other examples, too. Littering, water shortages, deforestation, traffic jams,

What is the tragedy of...

 power than from nuclear power nuclear and coal plants prospects are fading worldwide because wind and solar power are cheaper and can also make grids resilience preventing cascading blackouts but these modern renewables also scale up in a fundamentally

Why modern renewable...

 So how did we get here? Almost everything that makes modern life possible relies on fossil coal, oil, and gas full of carbon from ancient organic matter. When we burn fossil fuels, we release carbon dioxide that builds up in our atmosphere,

The “myth” of the...

 to come to the capital city and to share her story. She sat down with me for hours, just ushered me in to the world of poverty. She described what it was like when the coals on the cooking fire finally just went completely cold.

Gary Haugen: The hidden...

 coal gas and oil to power our energy generation to heat our homes to drive our factories to power our cars and our trains and travel around the world and when we burn fossil fuels

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