The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.
Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world.
We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.
The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.
The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.
The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.
If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking.
We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels.
Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007-and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence.
It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. . . . Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.
Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine
My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.
Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.