Rachel Maddow mentioned our work to expose FACES of Coal earlier tonight [below]. Please also check out DeSmogBlog, Jeff Biggers, and ThinkProgress who are breaking and building upon this story as we speak. Meanwhile, Josh Nelson at enviroknow brings the heat to Bonner and Associates, who are trying to scapegoat a single temp [...]

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The Farce Continues
We’ve touched on the fact that the new coal industry front group “FACES” has yet to come forward with a list of their members.  Well, thanks to a few new media> gumshoes, including Appalachian Voices’ own Jamie Goodman and our friends at DeSmogBlog, we’ve learned that not only is FACES hosted by [...]

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You may have heard of the protests against mountaintop removal going on in West Virginia all year of which there have been over a dozen (Three examples: 1, 2, and 3). The latest involves a couple WV residents in a tree on a mountaintop removal site in an attempt to halt blasting (laws require that [...]

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A blog post by Jim Hogan of Desmogblog: view it here. Jim sheds some light on where the new PR front group on coal is getting their funding. Guess what? Its the coal industry. Basically the coal industry is the main face of coal. An excerpt from Jim’s blog is below and you can view [...]

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This Time in South Carolina
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Cross posted from the Appalachian Voices Front Porch Blog
Today rate-payers and oxygen users can breathe a little easier, as the Santee Cooper company nixed its plans to build another coal plant in the state.
A committee of the state-owned utility voted this morning to suspend an effort to secure permits [...]

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Another one bites the dust, this one in South Carolina - proposed by the Santee Cooper Electric Cooperative
Read the first article to hit the press here.
“Committee members and Santee Cooper staff said the down economy, looming federal regulation of carbon and a potential agreement with another power company made it possible to forgo building the [...]

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Cross posted from the Appalachian Voices’ Front Porch Blog
Another shiny coal industry front group. How authentic.
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The coal industry PR generators must be running low on fuel, because they have been misfiring repeatedly over the course of the Summer, and it looks like they may have another false start with “FACES” (Federation for American Coal, [...]

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An excellent Editorial putting coal in context of how much is left was printed on August 16 by the Roanoke Times. The editorial cites Richard Heinberg’s recently published book, Blackout (intro and review here) which as the editorial puts it, “lays out the case that America’s coal reserves are far shallower than thought.” The Editorial [...]

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08.11.2009 – From the Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition
August 11,2009
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JUDGE RULES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS IN CHALLENGE TO VIRGINA POWER PLANT
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Contact: Cale Jaffe, Southern Environmental Law Center Senior Attorney, (434) 760-0816
Cat McCue, Southern Environmental Law Center Senior Communications Manager (434) 953-8672
Kathy Selvage, Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards, (276) 219-2721
You can download the decision here: http://wiseenergyforvirginia.org/downloads/Wise%20Decision.pdf
(Richmond, VA) – [...]

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cross-posted from the CCAN blog.
This morning, CCAN staff, volunteers and concerned Americans nationwide staged series of beach-themed rallies in around fifty cities across the country. Held in partnership with 1Sky, the festive gathering sought to urge our Senators to enact climate legislation that ensures a real cap on CO2, dictated by the EPA, as [...]

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Cross posted by JW from the Appalachian Voices Front Porch Blog

Having had their astroturfing forgery exposed, this week coal industry front group ACCCE is taking an uber-REAL super-grassrootsy approach to showing us their grassrootability, via Twitter. And this time, rather than making stuff up about random minority groups, womens’ organizations, or seniors, they’re saying that [...]

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Cross posted from Appalachian Voices Front Porch Blog
Congressman Tom Perriello (VA-05) was just on Rachel Maddow talking about Bonner/ACCCE’s fraudulent attempts to get him to vote against climate legislation. The fossil fuel industry has completely destroyed their fragile credibility, and things are heating up for ACCCE and their corporate lobbying partners with increasing calls for [...]

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cross-posted from the CCAN Blog
Virginians are no stranger to coal. A state that currently generates 42% of its electricity from the old-school fossil fuel, we are used to living in a political culture that accepts – and endorses – the adherence to a fuel as old as the dinosaurs, and equally archaic. Major players in [...]

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Cross posted from Appalachian Voices’ Front Porch Blog
Polluting Industries Caught Forging Support
When you are a small non-profit working to reform billion dollar industries, you can take some solace when the other side is damaging their own case far more seriously than regular citizens ever could. The last few days have been a highlight reel of [...]

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