Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how hard the industry will fall.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be.
The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.
Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregard for the safety, health and quality of life of its work force. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always known it.
Entering 2015, the coal industry clearly continues to face significant challenges.
If you want improvements in coal, you've got to keep people in the business.
The coal industry has helped fuel this Nation for 150 years, and coal can be used to heat our homes, power our economy, and protect our Nation for at least another 150 years if we continue to use it.
The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.
For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.
Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.
I think we'll still be operating coal in 2030. Whether we will be in 2040, I think, is a question, or in 2050.
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