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We don't want to leave the coal in the ground, and that necessarily is going to involve better technology with regard to clean uses of coal.

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

I think we'll still be operating coal in 2030. Whether we will be in 2040, I think, is a question, or in 2050.

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

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

There are no coal plants on the drawing board for Duke, which leaves us with gas, renewables, and nuclear.

If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.

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

There is no war on coal. Period. There are more coal jobs and more coal produced in Ohio than there were five years ago, in spite of the talking points and the yard signs.

Coal is a big deal here in Wyoming.