Coal is clean, right? That\u2019s what the media-savvy American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy [ACCE] tried to get us to believe in an ad campaign a couple of years ago that remains relevant today. During Congressional debates over energy policy in 2008 and 2009, ACCE spent a reported $31 million on an ad campaign to make its point, using the conservative \u201cclean\u201d coal frame that has become the de facto language for this political debate. A recent post at Big Think analyzes how ACCE\u2019s ads cleverly co-opted the usually progressive focus<\/a> on families, individuals and workers to appeal to emotions and to not-so-subtly imply that being anti-coal is anti-American.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s an example of an ACCE ad, called \u201cCoal Fires This Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n