If you want improvements in coal, you've got to keep people in the business.
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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.
Coal is cheap, but up to what extent are we going to allow coal plants to operate?
To shut off coal, or to say you can't have further coal development, I think is the wrong way to go.
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.
At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.
Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic.
More coal-to-liquid means more energy and a stronger economy.
The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.
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 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.
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