Monday, August 22, 2016

Coal Lobbying Loses Steam As Climate Awareness Rises

American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy lobbying spend, 2008-2014 (climateinvestigations.org)

Think of big businesses that lobby to restrict US work on climate change. ExxonMobil and its hard-line petroleum allies probably come up first. However, we sometimes forget the participation of many of the flagging US coal barons. The Climate Investigations Center, a small progressive group that monitors energy and environmental outliers, says the coal lobbying influence is waning. [&hellip

Coal Lobbying Loses Steam As Climate Awareness Rises was originally published on CleanTechnica.

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