http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/08/03/accce-bonner-party/">Fraudster Bonner’s Client Exposed: ACCCE, King Coal’s Dirty Front GroupACCCE adThe coal industry’s top front group has admitted to hiring Bonner & Associates to block clean energy reform. The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE),
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/tag/accce">a public-relations juggernaut funded by electric utilities, mining corporations, and other coal interests to derail mandatory limits on global warming pollution, “
http://eenews.net/eenewspm/2009/08/03/7/">acknowledged” paying for Bonner’s “outreach” fraud — the forging of letters from civil rights organizations opposing the American Clean Energy and Security Act:
The group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity acknowledged this afternoon that it had contracted Bonner & Associates earlier to perform “limited outreach,” but the advocacy group denounced the firm’s actions.ACCCE’s choice of Bonner comes a little surprise, as Bonner has built a reputation as one of the
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/31/bonner-forgery/">most effective and amoral Astroturf companies inside the Beltway, having generated “grassroots” campaigns on behalf of the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries.
When not paying for Astroturf fraud, ACCCE was the
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/25/pollution-climate-lobbyists/">top lobbyist on climate change and clean energy last year, spending $10.5 million on powerhouse lobbyists such as the Podesta Group and Guinn Gillespie. ACCCE has been praised for the “sophistication” of its public message of
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/21/clean-coal-lie/">supporting mandatory emissions limits in theory while
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/05/23/coal-climate-lobbying/">virulently opposing the passage of any
http://www.desmogblog.com/accce%E2%80%99s-wild-and-crazy-advertising-claims-debunked">actual legislation.
In addition, ACCCE has a
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/06/accce-online-job/">$20 million budget for online campaigns for “shaping public attitudes” in favor of coal, has run tens of millions of dollars of television and radio ads, has handed out “clean coal”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/americaspower/sets/72157607522552519">t-shirts and baseball caps, and even promoted
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/10/clean-coal-carrolers/">“Frosty the Coalman” carols.
More about ACCCE from the
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/accce3.pdf">Wonk Room Resource Library.
Go
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/08/03/accce-bonner-party/">here for updates.
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