Coal Quotes - page 7

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room. (Jeff Goodell)
Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China. View quote
Jeff Goodell
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. View quote
Jeff Goodell
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. View quote
Jeff Goodell
For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs. View quote
Jeff Goodell
Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal. View quote
Jeff Goodell
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. View quote
Jeff Goodell
Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas. View quote
Jeff Goodell
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. View quote
Jeff Goodell
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. View quote
Jeff Goodell
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event. (Jeff Goodell)
Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants will still be available, but they will not be able to drive our growth, our population and, most critically, our food supply as before. View quote
Jeremy Grantham
Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population. View quote
John Olver
Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed. View quote
John S. Watson
And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid. View quote
John W. Snow
Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream. View quote
Larry Bucshon
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them. View quote
Lawana Blackwell
Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed? View quote
Madeleine M. Kunin
It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal. View quote
Hal Rogers
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania. View quote
Irwin Thomas
Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal. (Jerry Leiber)
Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out. View quote
Kevin Richardson
We're not saying that you don't need coal, but when you do mine the coal there are responsibilities to it. It may cost a little more, but it is the right thing to do. View quote
Kevin Richardson
We believe widespread adoption of home solar will significantly improve life in cities by phasing out polluting coal plants, eliminating miles of ugly new transmission lines, and ensuring cleaner, healthier lives. View quote
Lynn Jurich
Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia, from her home on the Eastern Shore to our little Appalachian coal town to marry my daddy, Ernest Smith, whose family had lived in these mountains for generations. View quote
Lee Smith