clean coal

Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy, raised questions on Wednesday about the viability of capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants underground, and suggested that coal may not even be part of the energy mix by 2050.
“I actually can see a future where coal is not in the equation in 2050,” Rogers told [...]

Following up on our earlier post about senators’ requests for more funding for carbon-capture-and-storage (CCS) technology in the Senate bill, we were wondering just how much of its own money the coal industry spends on CCS.
Turns out, the average coal company spends very little.

Late last week, a group of eight senators delivered lists of proposed measures to protect and promote coal in the pending climate and energy legislation to the committee chairs charged with authoring the bill. The group calls for more funding to promote the development and deployment of carbon-capture-and-storage (CCS) technology and more bonus allocations to [...]

Another major corporation announced on Wednesday that it’s leaving the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity over concerns about the group’s efforts to thwart climate legislation. Alstom Power, a French company that makes components for power plants, said it is leaving ACCCE immediately.
“We have resigned from ACCCE because of questions that have been raised about [...]

After the Justice Department dragged out four different lawsuits seeking public access to White House visitor records, the Obama administration finally agreed yesterday to settle the cases, brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and committed to post visitor records online.
CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan praised the White House, saying, “The Obama [...]

In a blow to the coal industry’s fight against climate change legislation, Duke Energy, the electric utility giant, has dropped out of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, National Journal reported this morning. The ACCCE raised eyebrows this summer when it was discovered that a firm the group hired to lobby against the [...]

With President Obama playing a cameo role in a recurring TV ad sponsored by American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCE), you may be wondering just what the administration’s priorities are for energy innovation. Rest assured, under the stimulus bill passed by Congress, “clean coal” research will get less than a quarter as much federal [...]

While the coal industry lobby in Washington seeks to rebrand its product as “clean,” and the fate of climate change legislation in Congress remains hostage to partisan maneuvering, two recent decisions by local power companies show a lower carbon future slowly taking shape.

Is pleading ignorance the new spin of the coal industry? A leading spokesman for the coal lobby told  CNN today that he “didn’t know” if burning coal causes global warming, reports DeSmog blogger Kevin Grandia. When CNN’s Joe Acosta asked Joe Lucas, the vice president of the Americans for Clean Coal Electricity, “Can you just [...]

The coal industry just lost another one. Alliant Energy announced it is canceling a proposed $1.8 billion power plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. Despite new publicity campaigns from groups like the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity and America’s Power, the Iowa project is the 94th proposed coal plant defeated in the past two years, according [...]