This new legal term defined the Community method in creating the European Coal and Steel Community and the beginning of the democratic re-organization of Europe.

" Barnhart v. Sigmon Coal Co., 534 U. S. 438, 450 ( 2002 ) " nless otherwise defined, statutory words will be interpreted as taking their ordinary, contemporary, common meaning.

Coal reserves within the region include those of the Irkutsk basin, the extreme eastern part of the Kansk-Achinsk basin, and the southern part of the Tunguska basin.

Carbon County marks the northern border of the Lehigh Valley region of the state and is considered part of the state's Coal Region, though the eastern and northeastern section is considered part of the Pocono Mountains region.

Whitley County is located within the Cumberland Plateau of southeastern Kentucky, which is greatly overlapped by the broad Eastern Coal Field region of the state.

Webster County is part of the Western Coal Fields region of Kentucky.

Union County is part of the Western Coal Fields region of Kentucky.

Owsley County is a county located in the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields region of Kentucky.

Ohio County is part of the Western Coal Fields region of Kentucky.

Muhlenberg County is part of the Western Coal Fields region of Kentucky.

McLean County is part of the Western Coal Fields region of Kentucky.

This rugged strip of land is the dividing feature separating the geologically younger Eastern Kentucky Coal Field region from the older, western geology of the state.

McCreary and the southern reaches of Pulaski County represent the beginnings of the Cumberland Plateau and the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field region.

Lee County lies within the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields region of Kentucky.

Hopkins County is part of the Western Coal Fields region of Kentucky.

Henderson County is part of the Western Coal Fields region of Kentucky.

Hancock County is part of the Western Coal Fields region of Kentucky.

Grayson County is part of the Western Coal Fields region of Kentucky.

Daviess County is part of the Western Coal Fields region of Kentucky.

Butler County is part of the Western Coal Fields region of Kentucky.

Coal, lead and zinc were mined in the region.

Madisonville is a city in Hopkins County, Kentucky, United States of the Western Coal Field region, located along US 41 and The Pennyrile Parkway.

McRoberts is located in Kentucky's Eastern Mountain Coal Fields region.

As of 2007, the state has 54 independent districts scattered throughout the state, with major concentrations in Northern Kentucky and the Eastern Coal Fields region.

Coal is mined in the west, though sheep herding in upper meadowlands are the primary source of income for the region.

* March 9 – March 11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine in Letcher County, Kentucky.

* December 24 – A methane gas explosion causes the Moweaqua Coal Mine Disaster which claims 54 lives.

* Coal Miners ' Memorial – Located across from the current city hall on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and First Street, this memorial statue commemorates those individuals who gave their lives in pursuit of coal in the local mines.

Coal contains a small amount of radioactive uranium, barium, thorium and potassium, but, in the case of pure coal, this is significantly less than the average concentration of those elements in the Earth's crust.

In 1829, a writer from Wilkes-Barre posted a notice in the Connecticut Mirror, writing, " among the curiosities of our county ( and we have a few ) are Smith's Coal Mines, situated in Plymouth township in this county ... it sends a sudden twinge through a fellow, say, to think himself walking under a mountain fifty feet through, with only here and there a pillar to support it ... those who feel desirous of knowing more about this matter, must do as many others have done-go and see for themselves.

The Coal Company known as the Union Pacific Coal Company claimed all of the land on the town site, and those building a home were compelled to lease the spot of ground desired from this Company.

Most men aged 18 to 51 were " called up " for military service, except for those in " reserved occupations " or " essential services ": Farming, Railways, Medicine, Skilled Tradesmen in war industries, Firemen, Policemen, Coal Mining and the Merchant Navy, and unmarried women under 30 could be directed into war industries such as munitions factories, the Women's Land Army or the Women's Timber Corps.

Coal Tits from Asia follow Bergmann's Rule, being larger in colder regions ; those from further west, however, do not, as the birds from the uplands around the Mediterranean are larger than those from northern Europe.

His position on the Coal Board was often mentioned later by those introducing Schumacher or his ideas.

The hatchlings have a blue tail ; those of the Northern Coal Skink are striped like the adults, but young Southern Coal Skinks have black bodies with at the utmost faint traces of stripes.

Some coal seams, such as those in certain areas of the Illawarra Coal Measures in NSW, Australia, contain little methane, with the predominant coal seam gas being carbon dioxide.

As was common in those days, " There were two inclines on the line: one at Bagworth, rising at 1 in 29 towards Swannington and worked by gravity ; and a much steeper though shorter one at the Swannington end, descending at 1 in 17 and worked by stationary engine ..." The latter was built by the Horsely Coal and Iron Company, and was equipped with a very early example of a piston valve.

" In response to efforts by miners to organize into a labor union, the Stone Mountain Coal Company announces it will cut the pay miners receive, and will be importing replacement workers into town to replace those who join the union.

Coal supplies about half of the United States ' electricity supplies, with the Powder River Basin mines supplying around 40 percent of the coal that fuels those stations, mainly to the east of the Rocky Mountains, for generating electricity.

The aggressively expansive operations of the Coal & Iron Co., including the Twin Shaft project, required vast outlays of money, and the coal and iron operations were not returning a profit on those outlays.

Most of those houses were built to house the Coal Miners who used to work at the nearby collieries.

Relatively recently, the British Coal Board strip-mined those seams that still had sufficient coal in them.

Adding to the hardship was the use of company scrip by the Stone Mountain Coal Company, because the scrip could only be used for those goods the company sold through their company stores, thus the miners did not have actual money that could be used elsewhere.

North of Clay Cross, there developed very busy Coal sidings, particularly those serving the Avenue Coal Carbonisation Plant.