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  • Some recent examples of successful reforms cited by the OECD include Germany's move to phase out some €5 billion $6.59 billion in subsidies for hard-coal mining by 2018 and Mexico's changes to its price stabilization fund, which spent some $17.7 billion to support consumers' petroleum use in 2008.

    OECD, IEA Urge Cuts to Fuel Subsidies John M. Biers 2011

  • Population: 147 million in 1989 (51% of the U.S.S.R. total) Energy: The RSFSR is responsible for 70% of Soviet hard-coal production, 91% of crude petroleum, 75% of natural gas.

    Yeltsin's Challenge 2008

  • In Brief Share Offering New World Resources BV, a Czech hard-coal miner, unveiled details of a share offering that is expected to garner as much as £1.1 billion ($2.19 billion).

    New World Plans 2008

  • Output at three major hard-coal fired plants and several minor plants came to a halt or ran under emergency conditions, according to an EnBW spokeswoman.

    German Workers Reach Wage Deal 2008

  • PRAGUE -- New World Resources BV, a Czech hard-coal miner, Wednesday unveiled details of a share offering that is expected to garner as much as £1.1 billion ($2.19 billion), but it may not awaken the sleeping market.

    Czech miner sets plans for $2.19 billion offering 2008

  • The 2018 sunset for the hard-coal industry wasset.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » 2007 » July 2007

  • The 2018 sunset for the hard-coal industry wasset.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Germany to Stop Subsidizing Coal: 2007

  • Wroclaw, Krakow and Walbrzych joined protests under way at hard-coal and lignite mines.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • In 1848 he began four more suspension aqueducts, these on the Delaware and Hudson Canal, linking the hard-coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania with the tidewater of the Hudson.

    The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

  • Mary was talking to Mert about a new heater, begging him to buy a nice new hard-coal heater instead of the second-hand hot blast stove he was thinking of buying from some man in Spring Road.

    Green Valley Katharine Reynolds

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