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Coal Lobbying Groups Losing Members as Industry Tumbles
Report shows companies are leaving the National Mining Association and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, some because of the groups’ climate stance.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23082016/coal-lobbying-groups-losing-members-industry-tumbles
At least 18 major companies—and perhaps nearly twice that many—have ended their memberships in two of the nation’s top coal lobbying groups, the National Mining Association and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity since 2009, according to research by the Climate Investigations Center (CIC), an environmental advocacy group.
Volvo Construction Equipment North America publicly announced its departure from the NMA during the Paris climate talks last December, citing opposition to the group’s anti-climate action lobbying. “We do not share the NMA’s view on climate change nor their opinion about the politics on climate change driven by American policy,” it told the environmental group Greenpeace. SFK, a Swedish manufacturer, made a similar public pronouncement….see link