Mining of coal and logging of the forests became major industries as transportation improved on the rivers and railroads were built.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Justice Brent Benjamin now chief justice voted to overturn a fifty million dollar judgment against the Massey Coal Company.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Max Arthur Cohn's painting "Coal Tower" shows the dark form of a coal tower against a light sky.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

One of Palmer's first actions as Attorney General was to prevent coal miners from going on strike.

VOA: special.2010.12.09

And they came by the hundreds of thousands to take jobs in steel factories in Pennsylvania and the coal mines of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Under the building, a boat is delivering coal that will help power the city of New York.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

After several months, President Roosevelt invited coal mine owners and union leaders to a meeting in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

The state governor freed her, but only after the United States Senate ordered an investigation into conditions in the West Virginia coal fields.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Automobiles create it. Any device that burns fuels like coal,gasoline,kerosene, oil or wood will produce carbon monoxide.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

They took jobs in the steel factories of Pennsylvania and the coal mines of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Many of the coal miners in America were men from the British mines in Wales.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Want to explore a working coal mine and a World War Two submarine?

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Coal was produced mostly in six states: Pennsylvania,Ohio,Indiana,Illinois, West Virginia and Colorado.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

And that year they produced three hundred fifty million tons of coal.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

The coal miner's wife, Florence Reece, remained inside with her children.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

They use biomass fuels like wood,crop waste, animal waste or coal.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

He did any kind of work he could find: Farming,coal mining,brick-making.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

In eighteen forty, the United States had seven thousand coal miners.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Burning fuels like oil and coal is a major cause.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

He ate alone by the light of a coal-oil lamp.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

This song is about the dangers of coal mining.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Burning it releases fewer pollutants than oil or coal.

VOA: special.2009.10.23