Thomas F. Hoffman, Consol’s senior vice president for external affairs, said the company meant no harm by letting the N.R.A. crew film at the mine. … He said the union went ahead with its work stoppage even though it had been informed that the interviews would not be used.

IOW: “We didn’t do anything wrong. And we gave the lunch money back, so what are you complaining about?”

Typical bully speak.

Working the rope line in Maumee, Ohio, the Senator [Biden] was asked by an environmentalist why he and Mr. Obama support “clean coal.” “We’re not supporting clean coal,” Mr. Biden responded. Then, riffing on China’s breakneck construction of new coal plants, he continued, “No coal plants here in America. Build them, if they’re going to build them, over there.”