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API and ACCCE spend the big bucks 0
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago Coal companies and the nation's biggest railroad association accounted for 50 percent of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity's (ACCCE) $47 million budget in 2008, according to ACCCE's tax return, E&E News reported on Wednesday. Yowza!
Swagga, bitchez!

Greens have finally got the Big Mo 1
Posted 1 month ago It looks like greens pushing for clean energy legislation finally have the wind at their back, with a streak of positive media stories about new friends and very stupid enemies.
firing chamber

Corporations call off the old green battle, but Chamber of Commerce soldiers on [UPDATED] 4
Posted 2 months ago Still more trouble for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the 97-year-old business advocacy group that has been courting controversy by questioning climate change and fighting a clean energy bill. Here are the companies that have quit the Chamber.
Who's getting railroaded?

Is Chamber of Commerce prez biased on climate because of his ties to Union Pacific railroad? 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Why is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on such a different page from its major members when it comes to climate change legislation?
sweeping ACCCE clean

Dominoes Keep Falling for Clean Coal Coalition 1
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Only a week after the nation's third largest utility, Duke Energy, announced it was terminating its membership in the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), citing disagreement over clean energy legislation, another company has followed suit.
General Electric fights for change from the inside … of a coal industry front group! 0
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
You can’t fight for change from inside an organization dedicated to stopping change, like, say, the scandal-ridden front group American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy.
ACCCE in the hole (and not in a good way)

Shake-ups at high-profile coal industry group 0
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The large power company Duke Energy, whose chief executive James Rogers has long advocated climate legislation, withdrew from the coal group this week.
Notable Quotable

Coal lobby claims their grassroots support is “more organic” than green groups’ 3
Posted 3 months ago
Big Coal interests continue to pretend their fake grassroots efforts are real.
A senior moment

More anti-climate-bill letters forged under names of senior-citizen groups 1
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
More fake letters opposing climate legislation have come to light, with this latest batch being falsely attributed to senior-citizen organizations.
The grass is always greener when it's astroturf

Energy interests to fund ‘astroturfing’ efforts during congressional break 2
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Coal, oil, and gas interests are pouring money into astroturfing programs to create the appearance of a "grassroots" anti-climate-bill movement.
Rolling out the Astroturf

Forged climate bill letters a ‘blatant fraud,’ says women’s group 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Among the forged anti-climate letters that found their way to Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.) earlier this summer was a message purporting to be from the American Association of University Women.
Take notes: This could be on the test!

Lessons from the coal industry: Using vs. engaging communities of color 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
This week revealed some of the best and worst moments in the role of people of color in the struggle over our nation’s energy and economic future.
An ACCCE up the sleeve

Forged letters not the first of ACCCE’s misrepresentations 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity says the sending of forged anti-climate-bill letters sent to members of Congress by one of its subcontractors was "an isolated incident." But it seems ACCCE also engaged in some fishy behavior last year during debate over a Senate climate bill.
Hawthorn Group claims it's an innocent victim -- oh, really!?

Forgery Farce 1
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
One of the more macabre aspects of the still-evolving scandal involving the forged letters to Congress on the climate legislation was the disavowal of all responsibility by the Hawthorn Group -- the astro-turf lobbying group that has worked for nearly a decade to snooker public officials about allegedly "clean coal."
ACCCE in the hole

Markey demands info on coal group’s role in forged climate-bill letters 1
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) wants answers from the pro-coal group that funded the organization responsible for forged letters sent to House members.
It wasn't me

Blame game continues as more details on forged letters to Congress come to light 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Officials at the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) are claiming to be victims of the forged anti-climate bill letters sent to three members of Congress earlier this summer, but a background document released by the organization reveals that its leaders knew about the fake letters before the House voted on climate legislation.
Dirty Political Tricks Lead Back to Clean Coal Coalition

ACCCE Hired Firm That Forged Opposition Letters 1
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Fake and Bake

Forged climate bill letters spark uproar over ‘astroturfing’ 16
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
More news on the forgery fracas: Fake letters opposing the House climate bill were sent to three members of Congress, not just one. The firm that forged the letters was under contract to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, which says it's outraged by this use of deceptive tactics.
Runaway Joe

Debate: Roberts v. ‘clean coal’ flack Joe Lucas 0
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Here's an online debate between me and clean coal spokesflack Joe Lucas, originally run by the PBS show NOW.