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Jim Miller's List: DIRTY COAL
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Overburn by a Coal Industry Front Group
Source: CQ Weekly, March 21, 2009In 2008 the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a coal industry lobby group, spent $9.9 million on federal lobbying as well as $38 million on advertising promoting "clean coal." The president of the coalition, Steven L. Miller, said "we're fighting for our livelihood." Coral Davenport reports that the coalition "won't try to block a climate bill -- it's inevitable, Miller says -- but will try to influence how it's structured, chiefly by delaying emission limits until clean coal is a commercial reality -- if it ever is." The coalition also hired Quinn Gillespie & Associates. "We are ramping up even more beyond the effort we had last year," Miller said. However, some lobbying insiders doubt that the scale of the campaign is warranted. "You can only influence and pressure people so much. If you're spending that kind of money, you're not getting your money's worth," an anonymous insider said.
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CoalSwarm a Nerve Center for the Green Energy Movement
Source: San Francisco Chronicle blog "The Thin Green Line," March 13, 2009The San Francisco Chronicle's website profiled "Ted Nace, director of the CoalSwarm website and an important part of the anti-coal movement that has been in the news in recent weeks." CoalSwarm is a "nerve center," a partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy within the SourceWatch wiki. Nace explains, "Anybody can post information. We've got 1500 articles on the [CoalSwarm] site, and it's been accessed hundreds of thousands of times. We have a separate article on each proposed coal plant and each existing plant, and whenever anything happens having to do with that plant, we post the news. Everything has to have a footnote to a published source, so people don't have to take our word for it. A movement needs information to run, and we're trying to put information at people's fingertips." SolveClimate blog also lauds CoalSwarm as "the one-stop-shop wiki for all the dirt you need on coal. ... As one supporter explained: 'It's putting information once the province of lobbyists into local activists' hands.'" CMD's SourceWatch wiki also hosts a major portal on Climate Change and the upcoming COP15 climate treaty conference.
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Center for American Progress Hangs with the Neocons
Source: Jeremy Scahill, April 2, 2009Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill sees the liberal Center for American Progress teaming up with leading neoconservatives and going to bat for Barack Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan. On April 3 CAP is hosting a forum titled A New Way Forward in Afghanistan to release their report Sustainable Security in Afghanistan. Scahill notes the event includes "a leading neoconservative activist, Frederick Kagan, one of the lead proponents of the 'surge' in Iraq. In addition to being a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, which was basically Dick Cheney's bunker away from the bunker in the 1990s, Kagan was also a major figure in advocating the agenda of the neocon-Project for the New American Century, which molded the Bush administration's conquistador foreign policy. Kagan's brother Robert Kagan along with William Kristol started a new version of PNAC a few weeks ago, called The Foreign Policy Initiative. Another key figure in the group is Dan Senor (who is married to CNN's Campbell Brown), formerly L. Paul Bremer's righthand in Iraq."
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