What’s sustainable about coal? We’ll leave it up to CoalBlue, a new group of Democrats touting the so far undiscovered energy source, to make that case.
A few weeks ago, we heard of a new coal lobbying group (I know, just the thing the world needs) that aims to support something we have not heard of, something called “sustainable coal.”
Formed by current and former Democratic members of the U.S House of Representatives, along with several coal lobbyists, CoalBlue aims to mobilize Americans in support of sustainable coal as part of a sensible, “all of the above” energy strategy.
With the way the political winds have blown over the past several years, it’s no surprise that Democrats are attempting to rally to keep coal relevant in the national debate over energy policy. The “war on coal” rhetoric employed primarily by Republicans, as vexing and misguided as it is, has been effective in pushing voters in coal-producing regions further to the right.
But in many cases, individual Democrats have been just as outspoken in their disdain for the EPA and, more recently, the Obama administration’s proposed actions to avert climate change. With strength in numbers, a group like CoalBlue could be seen as a logical next step.
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