The Wonk Room

Coal Industry Gloats: We Will Run This Country

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is celebrating on its “Behind the Plug” blog about their successful photo-op with Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE):

Joe Lucas, an ACCCE lobbyist, gloats:

With just nine days left in the campaign, we still don’t know who will be running the country, but we know what will: American coal.

ACCCE is spending about $50 million to pollute our national discourse with the toxic myth of “clean coal.” The coal and oil industries have spent nearly $1 billion on an army of lobbyists, advertisements, and campaign contributions this year.

We have reached a new low in our democracy when corporate polluter flacks are willing to publicly state that their industry runs this nation.