rake over coals

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• In some parts of the country right now that rely 60 percent or more for electricity generation on coal power, moving to electricity could increase GHG emissions.

• In 2019, more than 66 percent of the electricity in China was generated using coal power, which is a leading contributor to air pollution in China.

• In coal plants, supplying the coal accounts for about 40 percent of total expenses.

• More than 40 percent of coal mined in the United States comes from federal land, and in 2016, the Obama administration hit pause on coal leasing there, pending a review of the program.

• Not even Naunchik, who hails from a long lineage of union coal miners, aluminum millers, teachers, and machinists in western Pennsylvania, wants a work-stoppage strike to happen.

• Good governance would mean sticks and coal for too many of our favorite politicians.

• There was Milan Hruška, a fiery miner from the North Bohemian coal mines.

• Life can be tough in West Virginia, especially for the hardworking souls of coal country.

• He also says Rahall made millions off that “coal-killing” legislation, which is patently false.

• The aforementioned stories may very well be legitimate, but let's consider them a sort of canary in the coal mine.

• It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.

• Of late, however, it has acquired a far greater interest through the discovery of coal underneath its surface.

• And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.

• An explosion took place in the Blackheath coal mines, Virginia; by which of the twenty-three workmen only one escaped death.