Coal Lobby Plans to Infiltrate Town Hall Meetings

The New York Times is reporting that coal energy’s biggest lobbying group is launching a $1 million campaign, which will send 225 000 volunteers (dubbed “America’s Power Army”) to town hall meetings across the country in order ask Senate Democrats poignant questions about energy policy. In this effort the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is employing the same public relations firm ensnared by a scandal over forged letters to Congress. Members of the PR firm’s subsidiary had sent at least three members of Congress a total of 12 fraudulent letters purporting to be from groups opposing climate change legislation (“Waxman-Markey”). Read the entire story.