71. The administration has been lobbied heavily by the coal industry which opposes regulating carbon dioxide and questions its role in global warming. 72. The British coal industry faces the challenges of imports that are cheaper and lower in sulphur and electricity generation plants that increasingly prefer gas to coal. 73. The Bush administration is preparing to allow the coal mining industry to fill waterways and valleys with the rock and dirt from mountaintop mining, particularly in West Virginia. 74. The coal industry, seeing it could have the most to lose from the debate, opposes cuts. 75. The coal industry is losing business to natural gas. 76. The British cut emissions when they ended subsidies for an inefficient coal industry. 77. The coal industry has been ravaged by economic collapse. 78. The Gishes, and a stream of idealistic cub reporters, fearlessly took on the coal industry. 79. The lawsuit asserted that state officials charged with protecting the environment had given free rein to the coal industry to dump wastes into streams. 80. The National Mining Association said large subsidies were crucial to an economically and environmentally sound coal industry. |
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