{"id":1300,"date":"2009-10-30T13:28:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T18:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2009-11-02T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T19:18:00","slug":"marketplace-report-misses-the-real-story-on-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/10\/30\/marketplace-report-misses-the-real-story-on-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Marketplace&#8217; Report Misses the Real Story on Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2009\/10\/29\/pm-climate-race3\/\">Yesterday&#8217;s <em>Marketplace<\/em> report<\/a> does an excellent job of highlighting the social and  political fissures occurring in West Virginia and nationally as the United  States starts in earnest the transition to a clean-energy, low-carbon economy.  What the story fails to adequately convey is just how many old-line energy  producers have crossed the divide and embraced the reality and opportunity of  capping and reducing greenhouse gas pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Don Blankenship, who was quoted in the story,\u00a0 is very  much a minority voice in the coal industry. His company, Massey Energy,\u00a0 is in fact not even among  the top four coal producers nationally, much less internationally. His views on  climate change are considered to be extreme even among the coal industry.<\/p>\n<p>Better for <em>Marketplace<\/em> to highlight the work of Mike  Morris of American Electric Power, among the nation&#8217;s largest electric utilities  and the largest consumer of coal in the Western Hemisphere. Today, AEP is cutting  the ribbon on a large demonstration of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aep.com\/environmental\/climatechange\/carboncapture\/\">carbon capture and storage  technology<\/a> in West Virginia, a technology Blankenship dismisses out of hand. AEP is also investing in wind generation even as it works to keep coal relevant  in a low-carbon economy.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who know Morris know he is no  bleeding heart &#8212; he is as flinty as they come. Yet, in supporting national clean  energy cap and trade carbon legislation, and in matching his advocacy with  investments in low-carbon technology, he is demonstrating the kind of leadership  that West Virginia and the nation need.<\/p>\n<p><em>Marketplace<\/em> should do a better job appreciating  just how increasingly irrelevant folks like Blankenship are to the national  conversation about our clean energy future.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Updated 11\/2<\/strong>: Corrected to remove references to NPR. 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