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ACC Critical Issues section

The American Coal Council’s Critical Issues section, on the ACC website, was created to provide our members and the public with factual and balanced information on a variety of timely and pressing issues facing the coal industry.

While a great deal of information is widely available in magazines/books and on the Internet, tracking it down and putting it into useful form can take a lot of time.

We have done the work for you. We researched several important topics, separated the wheat from the chaff, and distilled that information into a short, useful format that you can use in your daily activities, advocacy work, background research, etc.

Issues covered to date include:

  • Biomass Co-firing
  • Cap & Trade
  • Carbon Capture & Storage
  • Coal Ash
  • Coal Facts
  • Clean Coal Technologies
  • Engineered Coal Fuels Technologies
  • EPA Regulations
  • Impending World Energy Mess
  • NOX Reduction Technologies
  • Renewable Portfolio Standards

Watch the ACC website – www.americancoalcouncil.org – for regular updates to the Issues page.

Coalblog (www.coalblog.org)

In today’s world, information is essential and providing accurate, balanced information and editorial is a primary driving force behind the coal industry’s communications efforts.

Working internationally to ensure the coal industry speaks with a common voice, showing its proactive measures to address environmental and efficiency challenges, as well as addressing its detractors, is becoming more important. Therefore, the American Coal Council (ACC) and the Coal Association of Canada (CAC) are working together on the Coalblog to get factual and balanced information on coal out to the public.

The ACC is also active on Facebook (facebook.com/americancoal) and Twitter (twitter.com/americancoal)

ACC Fact Sheets

The American Coal Council has put together several short information sheets on coal and the coal industry. These fact sheets cover a variety of topics that relate to coal or impact on the coal industry. They will be of use to people in the industry, elected officials, teachers and students, and the general public. In fact, they will help anyone, who is looking for some basic, easy to understand information on coal.

Feel free to download them from the ACC website and use them to help spread the good word about coal. Feel free to link to them from your site. Feel free to cite them in articles and presentations. They are here to help you better understand coal’s role in the world around you.

Fact sheets available include:

  • Cap & Trade
  • Coal: An Abundant Energy Resource
  • Coal: An Economic Energy Resource
  • Coal Ash: An Environmental & Economic Windfall
  • Coal Ash: Beneficial Reuse
  • Coal Basics
  • Engineered Coal Fuel Technologies
  • Renewable Portfolio Standards
  • U.S. Coal Mine Safety

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