Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A more or less distinctly preserved or fossilized relic of vegetation found in connection with mineral coal, and regarded as representing, or as akin with, the vegetation of which the coal itself is composed.
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Examples
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In January, a Congressional Research Service report suggested that doubling the nation's electric power generation from gas, with a corresponding drop in coal, would reduce current coal-plant carbon dioxide emissions by 19%, lowering total U. S greenhouse gas emissions by about 6% overall.
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In just the past few years, economic competition from natural gas, regulation of coal-plant emissions, and a growing backlash from the people who live and work in coal country have all created a very different world for Massey Energy.
Michael Brune: Massey's Chance to Clean the Slate? Michael Brune 2010
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In just the past few years, economic competition from natural gas, regulation of coal-plant emissions, and a growing backlash from the people who live and work in coal country have all created a very different world for Massey Energy.
Michael Brune: Massey's Chance to Clean the Slate? Michael Brune 2010
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In just the past few years, economic competition from natural gas, regulation of coal-plant emissions, and a growing backlash from the people who live and work in coal country have all created a very different world for Massey Energy.
Michael Brune: Massey's Chance to Clean the Slate? Michael Brune 2010
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In just the past few years, economic competition from natural gas, regulation of coal-plant emissions, and a growing backlash from the people who live and work in coal country have all created a very different world for Massey Energy.
Michael Brune: Massey's Chance to Clean the Slate? Michael Brune 2010
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In just the past few years, economic competition from natural gas, regulation of coal-plant emissions, and a growing backlash from the people who live and work in coal country have all created a very different world for Massey Energy.
Michael Brune: Massey's Chance to Clean the Slate? Michael Brune 2010
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The project is to be financed with a $3 billion loan to Eskom – the South African electricity company – and is the largest coal-plant loan in the Bank history.
World Bank Needs to do Better on Energy Sector Investments Post South African Coal Project 2010
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In just the past few years, economic competition from natural gas, regulation of coal-plant emissions, and a growing backlash from the people who live and work in coal country have all created a very different world for Massey Energy.
Michael Brune: Massey's Chance to Clean the Slate? Michael Brune 2010
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The project is to be financed with a $3 billion loan to Eskom – the South African electricity company – and is the largest coal-plant loan in the Bank history.
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In just the past few years, economic competition from natural gas, regulation of coal-plant emissions, and a growing backlash from the people who live and work in coal country have all created a very different world for Massey Energy.
Michael Brune: Massey's Chance to Clean the Slate? Michael Brune 2010
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