This week, a group marched on Mayor Ray Nagin's house, dropping coal on his porch, just a few blocks from the bulldozers.
Three families will be selected to appear in the Coal House series, which will send people back in time to taste life in a 1927 south Wales mining town.
She remembered that when she was a little girl she believed that three ghosts were living in the coal house, and one of the ghosts wore a silver ring.
ArcelorMittal continues to add value by increasing self-sufficiency and producing more of its iron ore and coal requirements in house.
Putting a price on carbon dioxide, as the cap-and-trade bill that passed the House in June would do, would make coal more expensive to burn and gas relatively cheaper.
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While the comedy was shot in California, it made liberal use of props from Scranton and referenced plenty of real-life landmarks, from Cooper's Seafood House and Poor Richard's pub to Lake Wallenpaupack and the Lackawanna County Coal Mine Tour.
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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My (much smarter) brother Robert showed the House Natural Resources Committee on September 22 that federal subsidies related to fossil-fuel (mainly coal and natural gas) fired electricity are about 68 cents per million watts.
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In the process, they retained some original details, including the herringbone floor and chimney with coal stove in the kitchen Ms. Sackman's favorite part of the house.
On the other hand, coal is likely to be in for a tough time regardless of which party rules the White House and Congress.
In meetings in recent days, representatives of electric power utilities that rely heavily on coal-fired plants, and some large unions, have taken their concerns to the White House.
From the Bush White House, they're talking about large-scale technology: oil and gas, nuclear power plants and clean coal research, which will cost billions of dollars and will take years.
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