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Coal’s Front Group Gets A New Name: American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE)

By Brad on Apr 17th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

Coal’s Front Group Gets A New Name: American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE)»

ABEC plug Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC), the $40 million coal-propaganda front group founded in 2000, is no more. In recent months, youth, environment, and health activists have exposed the dirty secrets of ABEC’s astroturf efforts to attack green-collar jobs and propagandize coal. ABEC and the Center for Energy and Economic Development (CEED) — the trade organization that started the front group — have now become the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE).

That acronym just happens to be remarkably similar to:

ACEEE — the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, opposing coal plant construction in Kansas

GPACE — the Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy, also leading the fight against coal plant construction in Kansas

SACE — the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, opposing coal plant construction in Florida

ACE NY — the Alliance for Clean Energy New York, promoting renewable technologies like wind over coal

At the Switchboard blog of the National Resources Defense Council — who make the case that “there is no such thing as ‘clean coal’” — Rob Perks notes, “They say a leopard can’t change its spots. That goes double for the sooty paw prints of the coal industry’s well-fed pet.”

H/T Gristmill, who found ACCCE’s “creepy new 60-second ad.”

Comments

2 Responses to “Coal’s Front Group Gets A New Name: American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE)”

moondancer Says:

The “clean Coal” people have been showing up at campaign events in Pa passing out T-shirts, chatting people up. Kind of an oxymoron, clean coal.
April 18th, 2008 at 12:55 am
williamf Says:

The term clean coal is interesting but I’m sure it’s misleading. Based on my experience with coal it’s anything but clean. When I was a child my grandfather heated his home with coal. He would get coal from a company that delivered by truck. The delivery man would pull a shute off his truck and set it up so that it would go through a basement window and drop the coal from the truck down the shute into a bin in the basement. Grandpa would shovel the stuff into a coal furnace, shovel after shovel. The coal dust was horrible. h I’m no environmental expert but I’m quite convinced, after this experience of living with grandpa and watching this process, that coal is the worst thing we could do to our environment. But to those who are selling coal I’d like to know what “exactly” they mean by clean coal.
April 18th, 2008 at 8:08 am