US Presidency
1980

We are energy-rich, and coal is one of the great potentials we have. MR. SMITH. President Carter, your comment? THE PRESIDENT. Yes, sir. To repeat myself, we have this year the opportunity, which we'll realize, to produce 800 million tons of coal'an unequaled record in the history of our country. Governor Reagan says that this is not a good achievement, and he blames restraints on coal production on regulations'regulations that affect the life and the health and safety of miners and also regulations that protect the purity of our air and the quality of our water and our land. We can not cast aside those regulations. We have a chance in the next 15 years, insisting upon the health and safety of workers in the mines, and also preserving the same high air and water pollution standards, to triple the amount of coal we produce.