Category: Coal
Former Energy Secretary Moniz, Guru of Kemper “Clean Coal” Debacle, Joins Board of Spendthrift, Climate-Denying Southern Company He Oversaw
Ernest Moniz, an enthusiastic booster of Southern Company’s Kemper “clean coal” power plant on which his Department of Energy spent almost a half billion dollars only to see it abandoned when the technology failed to …
Washington Post: Exxon, Koch, and Big Coal Cash Begat Trump Climate Denial
Q: What does spending tens of millions of dollars supporting climate denial organizations over a twenty year period buy you? A: Donald Trump, abdication of U.S. leadership on climate and increased risk of damage from …
Clean Coal Officially Dead in Mississippi as Southern Company Battered by Kemper Fall-Out
Clean coal officially died in Mississippi today as state regulators voted unanimously to issue an official order denying further money for the Kemper coal plant and beginning a settlement process with its builder, Southern Company. …
Southern Company Says Kemper Not Viable as Coal Plant, Blames the PSC
In an apparent first salvo in a public relations campaign to shift blame for the Kemper power plant boondoggle away from himself and corporate management and onto state regulators, Southern Company chief executive officer Tom …
Southern Company’s Kemper Coal Plant Could Get Billions in Tax Credit Bail-Out
If Donald Trump really wants to get rid of federal corporate welfare, he should be frantically tweeting against a congressional plan that could send billions to the grossly mismanaged Kemper power plant by expanding tax …
Three Coal Companies are Trying to Keep Secret How Much Federal Coal They Mine
Earlier this year, I looked at just how much the largest US coal mining companies depend on access to subsidized federal coal, most of it extracted from public lands in the Powder River Basin of …
American Electric Power says “We don’t agree with or share every position” of ACCCE, yet remains a member of the coal lobby group
The Conesville Power Plant in Conesville, Ohio, is operated by American Electric Power and burns about 12,000 tons of coal a day. That’s enough coal to fill 120 box cars. ALLY MAROTTI / WOSU American …
The coal industry can’t decide: climate denial or subsidies for “clean coal”?
The New York Times yesterday reported on a presentation given to a coal industry conference last year titled “Survival is Victory: Lessons from the Tobacco Wars.” The presentation was prepared by Richard Reavey, a former …
Two (or three?) more companies confirm departure from coal lobby group ACCCE
Two more companies – and perhaps three – have confirmed their departure from the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) this week, following the publication of our report detailing major companies’ departure from coal lobby …
Kemper Project’s Untested Equipment Means Southern Company Way Off On Schedule
Engineers who worked on Southern Company’s Kemper coal plant say the proposed start-up date of September 2016 is as unrealistic as previous dates given by the company and that the plant is unlikely to go …