coal

Thus, we’ve had microhistories of coal, sugar, rain, dust, cotton, butter, notebooks, eating utensils and bookmaking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

"You can actually smell the coal dust in your nostrils. It really brings your brain back to that place," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

While less polluting than coal, gas plants are still significant sources of planet-warming emissions, and their operations, particularly upstream, also leak methane, the main component of natural gas and itself a powerful greenhouse gas.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Whether that acceleration continues will depend heavily on future carbon dioxide emissions from coal, oil, and natural gas.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

The city air was always thick with coal and dust and smoke, lower Manhattan worse than all, but this was different.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

So he kicked it with his boot, exposing red-hot coals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

Before, his customers were primarily pizzerias or grilled-meat restaurants, who cook over coals; now they are families.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

Why do you rake yourself over the coals for every last cent you have spent, and second-guess every move?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025

U2 got raked over the coals when their late ’80s wandering across the American West inspired “The Joshua Tree.”

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025

It sizzled and fried, and drops of fat dripped off it and blazed on the coals.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder