It’s amazing how much can change in a year. At this time in 2011, we were testing our hair for mercury as a way to encourage the EPA to adopt strong mercury pollution protections – which the agency did. I was also celebrating generating my first clean kilowatt of energy from brand new solar panels on my home.

A mere one year later, some jaw-dropping numbers have just come in: In the first quarter of 2012, coal made up just 36 percent of U.S. electricity generation – down from nearly 45 percent from the same period in 2011. That’s a 9 percent drop in U.S. coal use in just one year.

The report, released this week by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), had even more bad news for big polluters. Electricity generation from coal may drop another 14 percent this year. The EIA also believes coal production will decline 10 percent in 2012.

Meanwhile, wind energy is thriving. In the first quarter of 2012, the U.S. installed 1,695 megawatts of wind, one of the industry’s best quarters ever, up 53 percent from the same time last year, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). Wind projects are creating jobs and economic opportunity across the country, with 32 new projects installed in 17 states in the first quarter alone.

Also this week, the coal industry released its own report, which clearly reflects the anxiety the industry is feeling. Entitled “Know Thy Enemy: An Update on the Sierra Club,” the Kentucky Coal Association singles out the Sierra Club by summarizing our ongoing commitment to see the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act fully enforced to protect the health and livelihoods of Americans. Coal companies and their friends in Congress are spending millions on top of millions to weaken these pillars of environmental protection. Have a look for yourself (pdf). Unfortunately, big polluters would rather spend money on drafting reports like this than protecting our health or investing in clean energy.

“We’re flattered that the coal industry would hire lawyers just to ‘research’ information available on our public website, but it seems like a waste of resources,” said Tom Pearce, a Sierra Club Kentucky organizer. “What energy companies should be doing is focusing on how to transition away from dangerous fossil fuels and invest in clean energy and a just transition for workers.”

One key measure that will help that transition is, unfortunately, in jeopardy. Congress has so far failed to renew a key wind energy provision that expires at the end of this year – the Production Tax Credit, which only Congress can renew. The wind industry is already announcing layoffs and canceled projects as a result of Congress’ failure to act, and without congressional action this year, thousands more clean-energy jobs will disappear. That’s why extending the tax credit for the wind sector has strong bipartisan support.

However, some in Congress aren’t listening. Help us by telling them to extend tax credits for wind and support clean-energy jobs over big polluters.

As the director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, I have to do a lot of traveling, which means spending more time than I would like away from my two-year-old daughter, Hazel. Just this Wednesday, I got home from a trip to find Hazel and her dad pretty exhausted after three days without Mom. I hope that someday, she’ll understand that I had to be away sometimes because I was working hard to protect her from the pollution that is a very real threat to her future.

For Hazel, I hope when she’s my age that the air and water are clean and safe, the mountains of her home state of West Virginia are still standing, and the threat of climate disruption has passed. I think that future is within our grasp, thanks to the work we are doing to move America beyond coal.

In the past year, we celebrated a historic victory that brought us much closer to that cleaner, safer future, when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the first-ever national mercury standards for coal fired power plants. Believe it or not, while coal plants are our nation’s #1 source of mercury pollution, until this year there were no national mercury standards in place for coal plants. None at all! Coal plants could just spew 100% of their toxic mercury into the air, which then made its way into our waterways and the fish that we eat.

These protections are long overdue, and will safeguard our families. According to the EPA, every year over 300,000 babies are born exposed to high enough levels of mercury to put them at risk of developmental problems, like lowered IQ and delays in walking and talking – problems that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Babies come into contact with this toxic mercury if their mothers eat a lot of certain species of fish, even before they become pregnant.

I was one of hundreds of thousands of moms and dads who worked hard to secure these new mercury protections, which were finalized in January. Now these safeguards are under attack, and we have to defend them.

Unfortunately, Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma is preparing to file a measure in Congress that would not only stop these mercury protections, but would also prevent the EPA from ever taking action on mercury again. Yes, you heard that right.

This Mother’s Day, my wish is that you will join me in taking action to defend these crucial mercury protections. I know all you moms and dads out there are busy, so we’ve made it simple for you - just click here to send a note to your Senator. Our kids are counting on us, so it’s time to speak up in defense of these long-overdue safeguards from toxic mercury pollution.

Thank you. And happy Mother’s Day!

Although the clean energy economy is gaining steam and our use of coal is declining, my home region of Appalachia is still threatened by mountaintop removal coal mining.

We’ve seen it with the overturning of the veto for the massive Spruce No. 1 mountaintop removal coal site in West Virginia, we’ve seen it as West Virginians continue to fight Arch Coal for its plans to strip mine historic Blair Mountain – and those are just two examples. Day after day, families in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee continue to suffer from damaged homes, polluted air and water, and threats to their health caused by mountaintop removal.

It’s important to remember that these attacks on Appalachia’s mountains and communities don’t just come from coal companies, but also from the banks that finance these operations. Banks with household names are complicit in polluting our air and water, threatening the health of Appalachian families, and destroying our natural heritage.

That’s why today the Rainforest Action and Sierra Club are releasing a report detailing the five filthiest banks in our third annual “Coal Finance Report Card.” This year, we looked at not only financing of mountaintop removal, but also at financing of the coal fired power plants that are our nation’s biggest source of the sulfur pollution that harms our health, the mercury pollution that harms our children, and the carbon pollution that harms our planet.

The report looks at the stated policies for mountaintop removal and coal financing from each of the largest U.S. banks and assigns a letter grade to how well they uphold these policies based on investments, transactions, and ownership of coal mining and coal burning utility companies.

Here are the worst of the worst:

My colleague at RAN states it well: “These banks are the ATMs for a dirty industry that is bad for health and bad for business,” said Amanda Starbuck, Director of RAN’s Energy and Finance Program. “Coal is the ultimate subprime investment for the climate.”

We’re not the only organizations seeing the problem with financial organizations investing in dirty energy. This week also marks a huge 200-mile march across Pennsylvania by a coalition of groups hoping PNC Bank (headquartered in Pennsylvania) will stop financing mountaintop removal coal mining. Spread-headed by the Earth Quaker Action Team, the walk is part of their fantastic “Bank Like Appalachia Matters” campaign.

Through today’s report, Sierra Club and RAN are not only pointing out where banks are failing as energy and climate leaders, but also we are reaffirming our strong commitment to work with the companies to adopt and implement meaningful policies on coal.

Protecting the health and safety of our families is everyone’s responsibility – including those that fund this destructive and dirty practice.  We hope this report card helps draw attention and scrutiny to those who are bankrolling some of the biggest polluters in our country.

I want to share a story with you about an amazing event that took place this past Earth Day. For three days, in 100+ degree heat, Native Americans led a 50-mile march to draw attention to the devastating effects of coal pollution on their community.

The Sierra Club was proud to support the Moapa Band of Paiutes on their three-day, 50-mile cultural healing walk from their reservation to the Lloyd George Federal Building in Las Vegas in order to bring visibility to the damage that the Reid Gardner coal-fired power plant is doing to the tribe’s health, culture and economy. In the 50-mile march, tribal members and supporters from tribal nations across the Southwest walked from their homeland to the doorstep of federal decision makers.

“We were here, we are here, and we will be here,” Moapa Paiute member Calvin Meyers says of his tribe’s relationship to their historical lands.  The Moapa Band of Paiutes tribal lands abut Reid Gardner, Southern Nevada’s last coal-burning power plant, owned by NV Energy. Tribal members and local residents have been suffering for years from numerous pollution problems at the plant.

“It’s not just air pollution from the coal plant and its old boilers,” says Barb Boyle, a Senior Campaign Representative for Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. “There are also several settling ponds for coal ash residue, there are enormous piles of coal that are uncovered, and a huge coal ash landfill that is also uncovered.”

The toxic coal dust at Reid Gardner is picked up during Southern Nevada’s frequent wind storms, blows over tribal lands, the town of Moapa, Mesquite and up to pristine areas like the Grand Canyon and Zion National Parks, threatening public health and creating regional haze pollution. The tribe wants the plant retired and replaced with clean energy.

Tribal members suffer from asthma attacks, allergies, sinus problems, ear infections, and thyroid disease that they believe directly result from their constant exposure to particulates that blow from the toxic coal ash disposal ponds onto the tribal lands, covering their cars, their homes and their families.

“People on the Moapa reservation have high rates of lung and heart disease,” says Barb. “This is a tribe that has born this burden for decades. It’s time to stop.”

The Moapa cultural walk ended Sunday with a large rally where a hundred and fifty people listened to speakers call for the closure of the Reid Gardner coal plant, and heard moving stories of the health problems for the young and old in the Moapa community. Members of the Moapa Pauites, the Las Vegas Paiutes, and the Shivwitts of Utah spoke about the dirty coal plant in their native languages, and performed traditional dances and songs.

Here’s a great TV news clip from the rally.

The next step happens on May 3, when EPA holds a public hearing on the Moapa reservation regarding a pollution permit for Reid Gardner. There’s another hearing on the same day just down the road from the reservation as well. Sign up here to attend the hearings.

“We want to get this plant retired as soon as possible,” Barb says. “That area has an amazing array of renewable energy resources – it’s a perfect place for solar power. The Moapa tribe is already working on a 350-megawatt solar system for their land.”

We can do better than coal – for the Moapa Band of Paiutes, other Native American tribes, and all Americans.

Photos by Alan Goya.

Both personally and professionally, the past four years have been remarkable for me. On the personal front, I welcomed my daughter into the world, which recharged my motivation to eliminate pollution and usher in a clean energy future. Professionally, I’ve worked with dozens of allies and millions of Americans to secure historic new health protections, like the first-ever national mercury safeguards that the Environmental Protection Agency finalized in December, or the historic carbon pollution standards they announced this spring.

Over the past four years, we’ve won historic victories for public health and the environment, as millions of Americans have stood up and said no to dirty coal and yes to clean energy.

We’ve celebrated landmark protections finally implemented that will — for the first time — help keep mercury out of our air and water, and away from our kids. We’ve retired more than 100 dirty, dangerous coal plants. And we’re seeing record growth from the clean energy sector that’s putting tens of thousands of Americans to work.

And over the past four years as we’ve seen these victories, President Obama has had our backs. In the battle for our nation’s future, President Obama has stood on the side of health, prosperity, and progress for all American families and against the greed of corporate polluters. From enacting the mercury safeguards to setting carbon pollution standards for power plants, President Obama and his exemplary EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson, have tackled some of the most dire and pressing threats to our health, our families, and our planet.

That’s why I’m proud to announce that today the Sierra Club is endorsing President Barack Obama for re-election. The President has demonstrated exceptional leadership in standing up to big polluters, implementing historic mercury protections, and strengthening the clean energy economy.

When I look at my daughter, I’m encouraged to think of how these victories will protect her health and the planet as she and her generation grows up. The Obama Administration has acted thoughtfully to address one of the biggest threats to her future — climate disruption — by first thoroughly reviewing the science, and then putting carbon pollution standards in place that will modernize the way we power our country — a move that will make for healthier kids, families and workers, while creating much-needed jobs.

Granted, we still have a lot of work to do. We still need stronger smog standards, protections from toxic coal ash, and an end to the devastating process of mountaintop removal coal mining. The Sierra Club will continue working hard toward all these goals in the months and years ahead.

In short, we know that the struggle for clean air, clean water, good jobs, and healthy families is far from over — and it doesn’t stop at the coal plant gates or at the coal executive’s desk. As so many of you all know, we have to fight everywhere from the halls of Congress to city hall, and on to the voting booth.

Big polluters know that, too — that’s why they are dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into shadowy front groups and propaganda campaigns to help put their political allies in office.

The goal of big polluters is the same as it has been for years: they don’t want any new protections in place that would mean they have to clean up their pollution. And if there’s an elected official who opposes them, they want to beat them.

Coal companies, along with their big oil cronies, are supporting candidates whose jobs plan is simply pollution without limits. But President Obama has embraced a clean energy future that puts Americans to work without risking the air we breathe and the water we drink.

But this election is about much more than just one person’s job — it’s the future of all the things we care about. We have to defend all the victories we’ve won to ensure that we can build upon them in the years to come — so that our kids have healthy air and water as they grow up. And we have more work to do.

If the President is defeated, big polluters will get free reign to turn back the clock and begin polluting our air and water without fear of repercussions.

The contrast is clear and the stakes are high. Big polluters may have millions to spend, but we know we have what it takes to beat them: our people. People who are willing to stand up, work hard, and fight for what is right.

It’s critical that we lend our voices and our power to ensure we win this fight, ensuring a cleaner, brighter, and healthier future for our country, our families, and our planet.

If President Obama is reelected, he will have a clear mandate to protect Americans’ air, water, land and health, creating momentum for progress on the issues we care so deeply about for generations to come. That’s an essential victory for parents like me who want a better, safer and healthy future for our kids — and an essential victory for all Americans.

Nationwide, students are leading the way in pushing their universities and colleges to invest in innovative clean energy solutions.  There is a growing momentum on college campuses to move our nation off dirty, 19th century fuels that are making people sick.

Twenty colleges and universities have won fights to phase out coal plants on their campuses, thanks in large part to the hard hitting Campuses Beyond Coal campaigns of Sierra Student Coalition.  These plants are responsible for dangerous pollution including mercury, carbon dioxide, arsenic and lead and can lead to more severe asthma attacks, bronchial infections and cancer.

Students can help reinvent the American economy by pressuring school administrations to invest in clean, safe and reliable energy on campuses from California to Connecticut.

Here’s the latest example of this amazing work by students – from Michigan State University and Sierra Student Coalition Organizer Anastasia Schemkes:

Michigan State operates the largest coal plant on a university campus in the nation, burning approximately 200,000 tons of coal per year. Fortunately for us, it also has one of the largest Campuses Beyond Coal campaigns in the nation with MSU Beyond Coal who has collected over 10,000 petition signatures to retire the dirty, aging plant over the course of their 2.5 year campaign.

As a result of student pressure, the university released an “Energy Transition Plan” this semester that is meant be their road map toward cleaner energy for the campus. Unfortunately, the plan lacks, well, any real plan at all. In many ways the ETP is a smokescreen for furthering fossil fuel use at the school while talking a lot about clean energy in only vaguest terms.

Students have responded with action, especially as the plan is headed to the Board of Trustees for approval. Along with an 18-foot-tall (yes, close to two stories! – see the photo above) inflatable inhaler, students held a press conference today about the negative health impacts of burning coal.

“I know firsthand how awful it is to have an asthma attack so bad that I’ve been hospitalized and stuck in a bed with machines helping me breathe, rather than being in class or out with friends,” said senior and leader of MSU Beyond Coal Talya Tavor (pictured at the left at one of today’s events) who has been suffering from asthma since she was two-years-old.

“Coal pollution causes hundreds of thousands of asthma attacks every year, which is why MSU must be a leader by cutting their toxic air pollution and switching to healthier energy sources starting now.”

In addition to the inhaler sitting just behind “The Rock” – an iconic campus landmark they had to camp out all night to paint and defend – the group created a field of 37 10-foot-tall sunflowers to represent the 37 deaths per year in Ingham County from coal-related illnesses and a banner representing the 10,547 student petitions the group has collected asking the administration to retire the dirty coal-burning plant on campus.

Later tonight they’re hosting a Clean Energy Forum with energy experts from across the state discussing how Michigan can create jobs and improve the economy by being a clean energy leader. They’ll also be joined by Bill McKibben, renowned author and activist who you might know from 350.org or those massive protests against the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline, who is skyping in to cheer them on. (You can catch a livestream of the event starting at 7pm ET)

All of this is leading up to the Board of Trustees meeting on Friday where the administration will formally present their deeply flawed plan. It’s so bad that the students who were initially invited to participate in the Steering Committee refused to sign-off on the final version.

Michigan State has a long way to go to be a clean energy leader, but students are still hopeful.

“We know MSU can be a clean energy leader. Our vision is not just for cleaner air on campus, but to put Spartans at the forefront of building a prosperous clean energy economy for Michigan and being a model for our peer institutions,” said Tavor.

And you can help – take action today by signing a petition to the university’s Board of Trustees urging them to take real steps to move MSU to 100% clean energy starting now.

Photos by Kim Teplitzky.

This week, there were two big clean energy projects announced in California that are remarkable for a couple of reasons. Together, these two projects will power hundreds of thousands of homes with clean, affordable solar energy.

They will create thousands of good-paying jobs and billions in local economic benefits.

They also garnered support from a diverse and unexpected group of allies that included business, labor, and environmental organizations.

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council approved an ordinance clearing the way for 150 megawatts of rooftop solar in the city. The CLEAN LA Solar program will allow local property owners to sell solar power generated from rooftops and parking lots back to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP), using a mechanism called a feed-in tariff, or, in plain language, a solar cash-back program.

Los Angeles will be the largest city in the nation to adopt such a program, which will supply renewable energy at a reasonable cost while spurring private investment and creating high-quality jobs.

“This is a smart, cost-effective method for businesses to create economic opportunity while weaning ourselves off the coal-fired plants that generate most of the city’s power,” said Brad Cox, Immediate Past Chairman of the Los Angeles Business Council.

Evan Gillespie of our California Beyond Coal campaign says this victory represents two years of work with the business community in LA, “The program, when fully realized in three years, will lead to 4,500 new jobs and $500 million in economic activity here in LA,” Evan says. This move will also offset 2.25 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2016.

Meanwhile this week, more clean energy good news came out of California when we (along with Audubon California, Defenders of Wildlife and the Natural Resources Defense Council) announced our support for a set of proposed large-scale solar power projects in Imperial County.

When completed, the Mt. Signal, Calexico I and Calexico II solar projects under development by 8minutenergy will produce 600 megawatts of electricity, enough to power more than 200,000 households. The projects are located on privately owned, disturbed land currently used to grow highly water-intensive landscaping grasses.

The developer has agreed to create and implement a conservation fund to address possible impacts to burrowing owls, which are potentially affected by the large-scale development of solar in Imperial County. The biological effects from the projects are significantly less than proposed renewable energy projects on environmentally sensitive public lands. These Imperial County projects show that it is possible to develop viable, cost-effective projects without sacrificing our precious desert wildlands.

Importantly, to help ensure this project would provide quality jobs, the Sierra Club introduced the developer to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. IBEW and 8minutenergy entered into a Project Labor Agreement to employ local Imperial Country workers for the projects. Imperial County has the highest unemployment rate in California (27%) and 23% of the population is below the poverty line.  The projects represent a $1 billion economic impact to the county over 30 years and will provide $20 million for the Calexico Unified School District.

“These projects are truly a win-win for local Imperial County workers and the environment,” said Johnny Simpson, Business Manager with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 569. “They will create good, middle-class green jobs with skilled training, healthcare benefits and pension retirement while reducing polluting greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.”

We are replacing dirty coal power with clean renewable energy that won’t harm public health but will create good jobs. Now, we need to unlock this kind of innovation and job creation in every state in America. This is our energy future!

Last week we introduced you to Mr. Coal Guy, a coal industry executive with a penchant for 80s television. As he dubs over some classic TV programming, you realize that coal companies will say anything to prevent us from moving Beyond Coal.

Today, we’re excited to launch the latest video in this series, starring two guys in golden jumpsuits – click here to watch.

We’re releasing this new video just as the coal industry is launching some misleading ads, reaching into their deep pockets to kick off a brand new $40 million ad campaign that will try to paint a rosier picture. But just like the tobacco companies before them, it’s clear that they will say anything to hide the truth that coal is killing Americans. While they’re trying to make the case that our country’s future depends on coal, we know that clean energy innovation is the real key to creating jobs and keeping America competitive – without making our families sick or disrupting our climate. It’s time to move beyond coal and make Mr. Coal Guy history.

Since we launched the videos, the response has been incredible. The videos have been viewed more than 300,000 times and the buzz on Twitter and Facebook continues to grow. While these videos are meant to be funny, the message is serious: coal is a dirty fuel that is making our country sick.

We need your help – share the new video and spread the word!

Today’s Obiliq protest against coal.

While the US has stopped building new coal plants, and has rejected 166 proposed coal plants in the past decade, some of our government institutions are, inexplicably, trying to force new coal plants on other countries. In Europe, local Kosovars are fed up with an increasingly corrupt process to push forward an unnecessary and polluting new coal-fired power plant. They are sick and tired of being steamrolled by the World Bank and U.S. government, which came to the country with a decade-old project in tow that they refuse to update to reflect 21st century realities.

This refusal is all the more damning with recent allegations of corruption being heaped upon this already controversial project. With official venues for communication broken, locals have decided they have no option but to resort to protest. Today, the people of Obiliq gathered with civil society organizations to protest the inherent corruption driving the environmental and health impacts their town will face if the plant is built. (The photos in this post are from today’s protest.)

The final straw came in response to allegations of corruption leveled by a local political party Alliance for the Future of Kosovo. These allegations apparently forced two companies that were pre-qualified to withdraw from the process. This should have given authorities pause. Instead, on the very same day, the World Bank announced its support, in principle, for the project. Locals were speechless.

These allegations came on the heels of a broken process, including the failure to make available two key documents – a Poverty Reduction Strategy and a Country Partnership Strategy. These are documents that determine the nature of World Bank investments for any country and are supposed to be developed in consultation with local communities. But apparently, when you have a pre-determined end goal already mapped out (an outdated, dirty, and expensive new coal plant) that becomes a bit of a pesky matter.

The World Bank has moved quickly to rectify this problem, but has still already announced its intention to fund this project without consultation. Thirteen civil society organizations pointed this out in a letter to the World Bank and requested that support for the new coal plant be withdrawn so they, not the World Bank or the US government, could decide on their future.

In addition to corruption and a broken process, experts have conclusively shown that Kosovo does not even need a polluting new coal plant, and that if it is built it will dramatically raise electricity prices for average citizens. It will also saddle this tiny country with $1.3 billion in debt at a time when the financial crisis is raging across Europe.

On top of that, the World Bank’s own former Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, Dan Kammen, has shown that low carbon alternatives are actually the low cost, high job impact option. He is now publicly questioning why the Bank and U.S. Treasury continue to push for a new coal plant given these facts.

The problem is this information has not caused the World Bank or the U.S. government to reevaluate their plans. Instead, the World Bank released a report acknowledging many of the critiques, but still doggedly insisting that the new coal plant move forward.

Today, residents of one of Europe’s smallest and poorest nations protested this broken process to say this is our land, and this should be our decision.

As the US says no to new coal plants, we must also support our brothers and sisters abroad who are doing the same, and who are saying yes to a clean energy future.

- Co-written by Nezir Sinani of the Kosovar Institute for Development Policy and Mary Anne Hitt, Director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign.

Photos by Nazim Haliti

The pollution caused by coal is serious business, as are the devastating affects coal pollution has on our health, our mountains, our air and water, and our planet. But sometimes the claims made by coal boosters are truly absurd, and the Sierra Club has just launched a new series of videos spoofing industry attempts to dismiss the very real harm that coal pollution causes.

I may be dating myself here, but I grew up watching the PBS classics, and so one of my favorite videos in the series is the one featuring painter Bob Ross. He always made it look so easy to plant those happy little trees. In our new video, a coal executive does a voiceover for Bob Ross as he paints a mountain: “Now, you can see where we’ve blown the mountaintop, exposing the coal. Scrapey scrapey, good bye lakey! And all the rivers and creatures as well.”

Watch Bob Ross and Mr. Coal

I hope you’ll check out the full set of videos here, and then share them with your friends – we launched these two videos this week, and we’ll be releasing three more in the coming weeks. You can also “like” Mr. Coal on Facebook and follow him on Twitter for more of his crazy talk.

Watch the second Mr. Coal video

These videos underscore how truly ridiculous it is for the industry to claim coal is safe and harmless. After all, every year, coal pollution contributes to 13,000 premature deaths, triggers 200,000 asthma attacks, and exposes 300,000 newborn babies to dangerous levels of mercury. Mountaintop removal operations have blown up over 500 mountains, and buried over 2,000 miles of streams with rock and debris.

That’s why Americans have rejected 166 new coal fired power plants, and why over 100 plants are now announced for retirement. America is moving beyond coal, to clean energy solutions like energy efficiency, wind, and solar that are creating tens of thousands of jobs, and sparking innovation that will power our country and our economy in the 21st century.

So help us spread the word. Enjoy these videos, and tell your friends – coal will say anything!