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Coal Quotes by Jeff Goodell
- When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.
- 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,…
- In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.
- 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…
- 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…
- Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
- For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.
- In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
- 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.
- Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.
- Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.
- 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…
- But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before…
- From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and…
- Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how…
- The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners…
More Coal Quotes
- I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or… — David Bailey
- Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. — Philip James Bailey
- I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard one. I'm… — Javier Bardem
- Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the… — Henry Ward Beecher
- As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the… — Annie Besant
- This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and… — Aneurin Bevan
- The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment. — Bono
- I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair,… — Jeff Buckley
- After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine. — Drew Carey
- James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean… — Jeremy Rifkin
- But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their… — Samuel Rutherford
- ...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a… — Maya Angelou