smokeless coal

In some areas, smokeless coal is often the only solid fuel used.

New River Smokeless Coal became known across the nation for its quality.

By May 31, home owners in these special zones will be allowed to burn only authorized fuels, including oil, gas and smokeless coal.

The current name derives from the American Smokeless Coal Company.

It would burn slowly now, producing a bed of deep red, smokeless coals instead of flame.

Used underground, the locomotives condensed their steam, and coke or smokeless coal was burnt to reduce the smoke.

A steady parade of oxcarts wound toward the villages, bearing baskets of smokeless coals and sacks of idol eyes.

In the early 1960s, the NCB started a development of a smokeless coal plant, known as a Homefire Plant, on site.

The city is sometimes called the "Smokeless Coal Capital", "The City of Champions" and the "Gateway To Southern West Virginia."

The Eccles No. 5 mine was opened in 1905; served by the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Virginian Railway, it mined West Virginia smokeless coal.

The price of smokeless coal - it has been unpopular in poorer neighborhoods because it costs more than the ordinary variety - has been reduced during periods when the smog creeps in.

In the early 20th century, prior to World War II, clean coal (also called "smokeless coal") referred to anthracite and high-grade bituminous coal, used for cooking and home heating.

Tams, W. P. (1963) The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Library.

Financial assistance would be given to householders to enable them to change to using smokeless coal or to other forms of heating when the ban became effective, and towards the costs of relocation of those companies with good environmental records and to encourage investment in new processes.

Loaded into large ships called colliers, the West Virginia "smokeless coal" was sent in coast-wise shipping to the Northeastern U.S. points such as New York City and New England, as well as exported to other countries worldwide.

Winding Gulf Collaries, Gulf Smokeless Coal Co., C.H. Mead Coal Co., E.E. White Coal Co., and Pemberton Coal and Coke Co. were among the early players in the field.

In 1970, Jim McGlothlin (a legal resident of Naples, Florida), along with his father Woodrow W. McGlothlin (who started the Diamond Smokeless Coal Co. in the mid-1950s) and five other investors, founded United Coal Company in Grundy, Virginia.

During the years of 1917-1982 Whitby is documented to have mined 8,995,174 tons of coal by the Bowyer Smokeless Coal Company, Sterling Smokeless Coal Company, Smith and Stover Coal Company and the R&F Coal Company.