Burning of soft coal to feed its growing economy has made China the world leader in sulfur emissions, and its neighbors are complaining about acid rain caused by all that sulfur.
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The alternative was to wash and size the existing soft coal to make it burn hotter and cleaner, and ensure that all coal sold in St . Louis was of this variety.
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The price of Western soft coal has plummeted, to $ 5 . 90 a ton from $ 12 . 50 a ton over the last 16 years, and the controversy has quieted.
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It was a railroad stop and the discovery of large areas of soft coal nearby made it the center of a vigorous mining industry in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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In 1892 the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway made a contract with the Beech Creek Railroad and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad to secure an outlet for soft coal to tidewater ( Atlantic Ocean ports, Philadelphia and New York ).
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But more and more, as world energy prices have declined or remained stable, and the country has obtained new sources of soft coal in the former East Germany that can be strip-mined at a much lower cost, that logic has seemed worn.
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Fletcher had arranged for two piles of soft coal to be dumped on " Margaret " s deck for the voyage to avoid again running out of coal, as well as lumber for repairs, and the crew filled lifeboats and bathtubs with potable water.
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Help that will not come without twisting some arms, notably those of 70 or so soft coal-burning utilities throughout the Ohio Valley that produce more than 80 percent of the acid rain killing the tops of our Catskills and Adirondacks, and poisoning our breathable air.
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The 25-foot-long machine, which can churn loose several tons of soft coal a day, is being rigged with a computer system so a single operator can drive it from above ground rather than a team of workers down below, reducing workers'exposure to the danger of the mines.
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The case that would be the board's undoing involved the United Mine Workers, just like the case the brought down the NDMB . Shortly after Cox's speech to the ABA, the coal industry agreed with soft coal miners to a wage increase of $ 1.90 a day plus an increase in benefits.
