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A logo for the new Fox Sports 1 channel is displayed during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Fox says its new sports cable network will launch Aug. 17. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Michael Pistillo, Jr. (right), with Barclays, calls out the price of Tiffany & Co. stock to Joseph Lawlor at the New York Stock Exchange on March 5, 2013. (Associated Press)

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Marine Gen. James N. Mattis (left), commander of U.S. Central Command, and Adm. William H. McRaven (right), commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, arrive on Capital Hill in Washington on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on a review of the defense authorization request for fiscal 2014 and future years. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Marine Gen. James N. Mattis (left), commander of U.S. Central Command, and Adm. William H. McRaven (right), commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, talk together on Capital Hill in Washington on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, before testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on a review of the defense authorization request for fiscal 2014 and future years. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Trader Craig Spector (right) works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Coal is a cheaper fuel source in the developing world, including India, where a worker carries coal to load onto a truck at a depot in Gauhati. India and other countries are building coal power plants to meet demand as its economy grows. (Associated Press)

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Officers of the Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau fetch coal sample for test at the coal dock of Rizhao Harbor in Rizhao in China's Shandong province on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010. China, the largest producer of coal in the world, became a net coal importer in 2009 as the country imported 130 million tons of coal last year, almost twice the volume for 2008. Its coal output reached 2.96 billion tons in 2009, up 12.7 percent year-on-year.(Photo By Chen Weifeng/Color China Photo/AP Images)

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Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, speaks during the Western Hunting & Conservation Expo Banquet at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City on Feb. 23, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Gov. Martin O’Malley is expected as early as Monday to introduce a bill aimed at funding roads and transit. The proposal, which is expected to include some type of tax increase, would add another item to the governor’s progressive agenda. (Associated Press)

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Thomas Minder, the initiator of the "Rip-off Initiative," which is designed to prevent bosses from receiving huge bonuses even when their companies do badly, reacts at a hotel in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, on Sunday, March 3, 2013, as he follows the exit poll results of a vote on a measure to boost shareholders' say about executive pay. (AP Photo/Keystone, Walter Bieri)