News & Events Archive

• October 14, 2009

  Local Officials Tour AEP’s Mountaineer Plant

  The Point Pleasant Register reports, “American Electric Power’s (AEP) Mountaineer Plant, located in New Haven, is one of the main power plants in the area.” Yesterday, “members of the Mason County Area Chamber of Commerce took a tour of the facility prior to eating lunch, which was catered by the Eastern Star Group.” A “presentation detailing the Mountaineer Plant’s Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Validation Project” was given to all those present.

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• September 22, 2009

  World's coal-generated electricity sector riveted by plans at W.Va.'s Mountaineer

  Poking out of the ground near the smokestacks of the Mountaineer power plant here are two wells that look much like those that draw natural gas to the surface. But these are about to do something new: inject a power plant’s carbon dioxide into the earth. The experiment, which the company says could begin in the next few days, is riveting the world’s coal-fired electricity sector, which is under growing pressure to develop technology to capture and store carbon dioxide. Visitors from as far as China and India, which are struggling with their own coal-related pollution, have been trooping through the plant.

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• December 10, 2009

  High unemployment puts jobs at heart of climate debate

  A new brochure from the oil industry's biggest trade group features an array of African-American, Asian, Latino, white and multiethnic faces -- men and women dressed to look like business executives, office workers, doctors, lawyers and blue-collar employees. It has the feel of a Gap or United Colors of Benetton advertisement. But a sentence above the people pictured on the American Petroleum Institute pamphlet makes clear what it is meant to convey. "America's oil and gas industry supports over 9 million jobs," it says. "One of them may be yours."

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• December 10, 2008

  ACCCE RESPONSE TO SIERRA CLUB’S CALL FOR A MORATORIUM ON COAL IN ARKANSAS AND NEW AD CAMPAIGN

  Little Rock – The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) issued the following statement from Joe Lucas, senior vice president of communications at ACCCE, on the heels of yesterday’s Sierra Club press conference and meeting with Governor Beebe calling for a moratorium on Southwestern Electric Power’s a new coal-based power plant in Hempstead County.

• August 17, 2009

  ACCCE Launches New Ad Campaign Focusing on Low Cost Electricity: ‘Real People, Real Stories’ Focuses on Ordinary People Supporting the Use of Coal

  The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) launched a new advertising campaign today, emphasizing the need to keep electricity costs affordable by strengthening the use of coal in our energy mix.