coal

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Locals say career opportunities are largely nonexistent outside of mining and some heavy manufacturing companies that support the coal and timber industries.

From The Wall Street Journal

As Mr. Tremlett writes, Spaniards during the first two decades after Franco’s death “genuinely did not want to rake over old coals.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But the backbreaking work left behind—often in agriculture or coal mines—was worse.

From The Wall Street Journal

It is the world's second-largest coal exporter, holds the third-largest coal reserves and continues to channel billions of dollars in public subsidies to fossil fuels.

From Barron's

But it is also one of the world's biggest coal exporters, and a major exporter of liquefied natural gas.

From Barron's