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Our coalition and other national coalitions are looking at SMCRA, and are looking at what other tools we might have to offer citizens in coal-bearing communities greater protection.
Jeff Biggers: Retaking Capitol Hill This Week: D.C. Strategist JW Randolph on Next Steps for Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement Jeff Biggers 2011
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Our coalition and other national coalitions are looking at SMCRA, and are looking at what other tools we might have to offer citizens in coal-bearing communities greater protection.
Jeff Biggers: Retaking Capitol Hill This Week: D.C. Strategist JW Randolph on Next Steps for Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement Jeff Biggers 2011
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Somehow, I wouldn't expect to be congratulated for getting every last barrel of oil or for having leveled the last coal-bearing mountain in Appalachia.
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The exception to this rule is the Carboniferous Period; its name means "coal-bearing," and this period is in fact the time when extensive coal beds were formed around the world.
Paleozoic 2009
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A coal-bearing train was actually stopped on its tracks by a two-story mound of muck.
Tennessee Gets a Lesson in Unaccountable Government Scott Barker 2009
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While it has some similarities to the Cumberland Plateau (68a) with its Pennsylvanian-age sandstone caprock, shale layers, and coal-bearing strata, this ecoregion is lower in elevation, has a slightly warmer climate, and has more agriculture.
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So if trying to claw her way through coal-bearing rock with her bare hands isn't enough to drive her mad, my little friends can take care of that problem by pushing her over the edge of sanity.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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Although it is scarcely possible that petroleum firing will ever be of use for locomotives on the ordinary railways of coal-bearing England, yet the author is convinced chat, even in such a country, its employment would be an enormous boon on underground lines.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various
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It is almost wholly composed of coal-bearing rocks, resting on Devonian strata, which are visible in many places in the valleys.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various
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The Department of State, in view of proofs filed with it in 1906, showing the American possession, occupation, and working of certain coal-bearing lands in Spitzbergen, accepted the invitation under the reservation above stated, and under the further reservation that all interests in those islands already vested should be protected and that there should be equality of opportunity for the future.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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