"The reason coal has been on a massive decline in recent years has less to do with President Obama and more to do with the inability of coal to innovate and compete."
"Democrats saw this coming. In 2009, the Waxman-Markey bill allocated $60 BILLION to coal."
"In George Bush's words 'We need this coal, our homeland security depends on it.'"
"In reality the fact is mountaintop removal is killing people."
"They said no. They said no. They said no over and over again to innovation."
"I just hope that the record is clear out there and this gets reported as the real story."
"We just across the board had a 15 percent reduction in our electricity rates. That is without coal."
"Let's be honest. That is welfare for coal executives making rate payers pay 30 percent more. That is just wrong."
"Again, the coal industry now has 75,000 workers, but the wind industry has 75,000 workers and the solar industry has 100,000 workers."
"Newer, cheaper, cleaner technologies are beating coal. The free market is beating coal."
"But the coal industry said NO. And Republicans said NO. They said NO to innovation."