The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.

- Gautam Adani

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

- Jeff Goodell

But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia.

- 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

Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

- Jeff Goodell

A coal mine greets you with only one sentiment, then hammers it: 'This is not a place for people. This is not a place for people. This is not a place for people'.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.

- Jean-Georges Vongerichten

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

- Irwin Thomas

It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.

- Hal Rogers

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

- Gloria Reuben

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

- Allan Savory

No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric.

- David Pratt

After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.

- Drew Carey

President after president has said energy independence is critical. But then you have the EPA tasked to go after American companies producing coal and penalizing them. You can't have it both ways.

- Corey Lewandowski

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

- Charles Duhigg

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.

- Ben Bradlee

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.

- Buddha

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

- Bono

Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim 'manufacturing' tax deductions.

- Bernie Sanders

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

- Bernie Mac