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Coal is cheap, but up to what extent are we going to allow coal plants to operate?

If you want improvements in coal, you've got to keep people in the business.

I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity - using clean, renewable energy as the key - into coal country, because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.

You have to recognize what the markets are doing, what the rules and regulations are doing, and all the more reasons that we've got to find some more solutions in particular with coal.

What we are investing in, from a generation standpoint, are renewables and natural gas.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity in this environment, it may be necessary to delay our production growth to match the market.

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

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.