Breakthrough Quote by Van Jones

There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way…

— Al Gore

The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be.

— Kevin Richardson

Cutting edge technologies have allowed us to utilize coal's diverse potentials. Not only are we using coal in cleaner and more environmentally sound methods,…

— Peter Roskam

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

— Jeff Goodell

Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when…

— Virgil Goode

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have…

— Nicholas Stern

Coal ash, the hazardous byproduct of burning coal to produce power, is a particularly insidious legacy of the nation's dependence on coal.

— Tatiana Schlossberg

The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.

— Gloria Reuben

The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively…

— Charles Duhigg

People are not running to build coal facilities because of the price of natural gas, but we do see them being constructed, and there…

— Gina McCarthy

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green