American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) was a coal-industry trade association working to increase the longevity of the coal industry. The group is now called America’s Power.
As of April 2016, the members of American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity included (among others): Alliance Resource Partners, L.P.; Alpha Natural Resources; American Electric Power; BNSF Railway (a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway); Caterpillar; Coal Utilization Research Council; CSX; Murray Energy Corporation; Natural Resource Partners; Norfolk Southern; Oglethorpe Power Cooperative; Peabody Energy; Southern Company; Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Inc.; Troutman Sanders; Union Pacific; Western Fuels Association.
By 2023, America’s Power members consisted mostly of coal mining companies.
One of the projects ACCCE highlighted as an advancement for clean coal technologies was Southern Company’s Kemper Power Plant in Mississippi. In 2016, Southern Company revealed that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was conducting an investigation of costs and delays at the Kemper...
American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) was a coal-industry trade association working to increase the longevity of the coal industry. The group is now called America’s Power.
As of April 2016, the members of American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity included (among others): Alliance Resource Partners, L.P.; Alpha Natural Resources; American Electric Power; BNSF Railway (a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway); Caterpillar; Coal Utilization Research Council; CSX; Murray Energy Corporation; Natural Resource Partners; Norfolk Southern; Oglethorpe Power Cooperative; Peabody Energy; Southern Company; Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Inc.; Troutman Sanders; Union Pacific; Western Fuels Association.
By 2023, America’s Power members consisted mostly of coal mining companies.
One of the projects ACCCE highlighted as an advancement for clean coal technologies was Southern Company’s Kemper Power Plant in Mississippi. In 2016, Southern Company revealed that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was conducting an investigation of costs and delays at the Kemper Project. The price tag of Kemper increased from an estimated $1.8 billion when it was first proposed in 2006 to $6.72 billion.
American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity has been a sponsor of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meetings since at least 2011. The organization sponsored the various meetings according to documentation from Center for Media and Democracy’s Sourcewatch profile on American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. ACCCE was selected as ALEC’s “Private Sector Member of the Year” in 2013.
ACCCE was one of the first organizations that immediately filed a petition for review when EPA published the Clean Power Plan in October 2015. ACCCE was also a member of the Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG), which had also sued the EPA over the Clean Power Plan. Besides litigation, ACCCE commissioned a report from an economic research firm, National Economic Research Associates, Inc (NERA), that claimed the clean air regulations proposed by President Barack Obama’s administration would cost utilities $17.8 billion per year and have serious impacts on electricity rates. Dr. Laurie T. Johnson, chief economist of the Natural Resources Defense Council pursued a review of the NERA study and concluded, “The report makes assumptions that artificially inflate costs, and displays a level of (non)transparency so egregious it would never pass a peer-review process.”
The ACCCE report also ignored clean energy and energy efficiency as two key compliance options for polluters to meet the Clean Power Plan standards and inflated the cost of energy efficiency solutions. In addition to funding from ACCCE, the NERA report on the Clean Power Plan was funded by American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, Association of American Railroads, American Farm Bureau Federation, Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, Consumer Energy Alliance, and National Mining Association.
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity waged a multi-million dollar campaign to impact the 2008 elections. The organization spent $2 million at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions to position the phrase “clean coal.”
