Family Quote by Richard Ojeda

But my family is connected to coal. There's hardly anybody in West Virginia that doesn't have a connection to the coal industry.

— Paula Jean Swearengin

You can't take a coal miner making $95,000 a year, the only work in these parts where you can support a family without having…

— Richard Ojeda

I'm working as hard as I can for West Virginia and its people to continue to provide the coal that keeps the lights on…

— Jim Justice

The coal miners are working. But there's more than just coal miners in West Virginia.

— Richard Ojeda

“In West Virginia, we've been extracting coal longer than anyone else. And after one hundred and fifty years of making other people rich, West…

— Tim DeChristopher

The coal industry in West Virginia, when it is down, people can't buy cars; people can't eat in restaurants. Everything suffers.

— Richard Ojeda

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…

— Larry Bucshon

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.

— 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.

— Jeff Goodell

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…

— Kevin Richardson

I know coal is dirty, but that's all we got. So as much as I'd love to have clean energy - solar panels everywhere…

— Richard Ojeda

“Well, coal companies create a lot of problems, most of them anyway. There are a couple of decent ones, but most care nothing about…

— John Grisham