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"I insist the children have coal in their Christmas stockings, which is a luxury item in Wales," he joked.

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The boys were coughing as if they had just emerged from a coal mine.

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People who had migrated from their family farms to the coal camps and textile mills that had promised greater opportunity were forced to return home, including Colored men who had worked in the coal mines.

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So even when bitcoin isn’t using sulfurous coal, it’s using renewable sources so somebody else has to use sulfurous coal.

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The world's second-largest coal exporter has long profited from fossil fuel exports and treated climate action as a political and economic liability.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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