Mark Gordon: “It’s important not only for the coal industry. It’s important for every industry.”

We would certainly go basically to the courts to enforce the commerce clause.

We would not have been a country, we would not have had a constitution, if there wasn’t some understanding that if you were landlocked, if that is you didn’t have access to the coast, that you couldn’t get your products out of.

If the goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, targeting the production of Federal fossil fuels only shifts production to other countries, many of whom have far less stringent emission controls than the U.S.

The circumstances were really tough and did not allow for as much as everybody wanted to do.