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Burning Coal at Home Is Making a Comeback

SUGARLOAF, Pa. — Kyle Buck heaved open the door of a makeshift bin abutting his suburban ranch house. Staring at a two-ton pile of coal that was delivered by truck a few weeks ago, Mr. Buck worried aloud that it would not be enough to last the winter.

“I think I’m going through it faster than I thought I would,” he said.

Aptly, perhaps, for an era of hard times, coal is making a comeback as a home heating fuel.

Problematic in some ways and difficult to handle, coal is nonetheless a cheap, plentiful, mined-in-America source of heat. And with the cost of heating oil and natural gas increasingly prone to spikes, some homeowners in the Northeast, pockets of the Midwest and even Alaska are deciding coal is worth the trouble.

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Phoenix Coal Inc. receives mine safety awards

Phoenix Coal Inc. (TSX: PHC) ("Phoenix Coal" or "the Company"), a leading producer and consolidator of thermal coal reserves in the Illinois Basin, today announced that the Company was the recipient of five mine safety awards at the quarterly meeting of the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association ("JAHSA"), Green River Council in Owensboro, Kentucky. Phoenix received two awards from JAHSA and an additional three awards from the Mine Safety and Health Administration ("MSHA")

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Don’t Let Coal Development Lag

If President-elect Barack Obama's choices for officials to deal with energy and environmental issues are any guide, development of coal technology may lag during his administration.

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Gov. Joe Manchin and C. Peter Magrath W.Va. is best place to turn coal into fuel

The energy summit last week brought together experts from the public and private sectors for a real wrestling match with America's energy dilemma. There were presentations about carbon sequestration; coal gasification; carbon credit markets; wind, solar and hydropower energy generation options; and other complex challenges that sit before us like unopened Christmas presents bound up with tight stubborn paper and bows of steel.

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Gene Kitts: Op-Ed Commentary

THERE is no question that the Gazette is biased when it comes to covering coal mining issues, but the Dec. 4 editorial "Sabotage" was simply dishonest.

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  4. "We are Democrats too" Editorial by: Chris Hamilton

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