Posted by admin2 at 10:03 am, May 16, 2012
WASHINGTON – The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity today unveiled a new web video contrasting President Obama’s campaign rhetoric on coal with the record of the Obama EPA, which is seeking to regulate coal out of existence in the United States.
“The President used to say the right things about coal, now millions of Americans need him to do the right things about coal,” said Evan Tracey, Senior Vice President, Communications of ACCCE. “Democrats and Republicans should agree that coal is critical to keeping electricity affordable and reliable.”
The video spotlights speeches from the 2008 campaign in which then-Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden spoke of the importance of clean coal. It then takes a brief look at the impact of recent EPA regulations that will shutter coal-fueled power plants and destroy American jobs. The video concludes with the recent news that the Obama campaign updated their website to include “clean coal” in their energy strategy after criticism from lawmakers.
The video can be viewed online at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt2rUgxzXwE&feature=youtu.be
16 May 2012, 10:03 am |
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It’s been over a year since President Obama voiced his support for coal. In the last few months, coal has been an energy blind spot for the Obama administration. Despite touting an “all-of-the-above” energy policy, the president continually omitted coal.
But now, things are changing.
Last week, President Obama “set a 10-year goal to develop and deploy cost-effective clean coal technology.” And, a page on the president’s campaign website now lists “clean coal” as a piece of the American energy portfolio.
We’ve seen this before. During the 2008 election, Obama embraced coal, saying that America should “invest in renewable sources of energy and in clean coal technology.” But as president, his EPA has released regulations that hurt clean coal and stifle our country’s ability to use this natural resource.
Will he change his stance again? If President Obama is reelected, it will be essential for him to fulfill his campaign promises. The EPA must be reigned in and stopped from issuing job-destroying regulations.
It’s time for the president to understand that now is not the time to stop innovation, slow job growth or take measures that could raise electricity prices. Whoever is elected this November, the next president needs to embrace and utilize this country’s most abundant natural resource to produce baseload electricity—coal.
14 May 2012, 3:18 pm |
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Posted by ACCCE at 10:54 am, May 11, 2012
WASHINGTON – After facing criticism from Members of Congress this week over omitting coal from the “all of the above” energy strategy on his campaign website, the Obama campaign last night finally added “clean coal” to the site. In response, Senior Vice President for Communications of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity Evan Tracey released the following statement:
“We’re glad the Obama campaign finally included clean coal in its ‘all of the above’ energy strategy, but the President’s commitment to coal needs to be more than just a talking point. The President’s EPA is using expensive and heavy handed regulations to regulate coal out of existence in America, making low cost and reliable electricity less certain in the future. We hope the President will reconsider these rules that only serve to make energy more expensive and destroy American jobs.”
Obama/Biden Campaign Energy Page, May 3, 2012:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cache:http://www.barackobama.com/energy-info
Obama/Biden Campaign’s Energy Page, May 11, 2012:
http://www.barackobama.com/energy-info
11 May 2012, 10:54 am |
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The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is committed to the idea that America can have the affordable, reliable electricity we need, with the clean environment we want. ACCCE’s Behind the Plug blog is the place for up-to-date news and analysis on clean coal technology developments and energy policy progress.