Academy Award-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen have created an anti-coal ad harpooning the coal industry’s greenwashing campaign. The ad, which launched yesterday, is part of the Reality Coalition‘s campaign “to demolish the notion that there’s anything clean about so-called clean coal.” Watch it:
Yesterday, the Center for Public Integrity reported that the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity spent more than $10.5 million in 2008 alone lobbying Congress for pro-coal “climate” legislation. The Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson has more on the myth of “clean” coal.
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