He agreed with the president that America needed renewable and nuclear energy but promised to end the federal regulatory war against coal and build the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Striking the same theme, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill dubbed the Stop the War on Coal Act to roll back environmental laws that affect the fossil-fuel industry, although the Senate will almost certainly block it.
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He called in at Gee's Bend, a poor black corner of Alabama, and Inez, a tiny Kentucky coal town where Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty (a third of Inez's residents remain below the poverty line).
Would the border region of Alsace-Lorraine, with its rich seams of coal, again be fought over as European nations struggled to control a key commodity, coal to produce electricity, needed for a war-making machine?
But just as the industrial revolution was built on coal, the post-second-world-war economy was built on cheap oil.
The Nazis later ran their war machine on synthetic fuels made from coal.
In his first, he told weary Britons that even New York was a war casualty, driven to burning filthy soft coal and hoarding butter.
John Cory was one of the coal owners responsible for the opening of the Barry docks in 1889 - a direct rival of the nearby Cardiff docks which by the outbreak of World War I had surpassed Cardiff as the county's largest coal exporting port.
But Chegdomyn was full of Russian coal miners, their ethnic-German families deported by Stalin from the western front during World War II.
He worked as a coal-miner in his teens, was drafted in 1943, and spent much of the war driving a truck for a mess squadron in Arizona.
The air force is working to certify all its aircraft to use synthetic fuels made from gas derived from coal or biomass, using the Fischer-Tropsch method used by Germany during the second world war.
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