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In the lead up to next month's climate negotiations in Copenhagen and the possibility of the U.S. Congress voting a climate bill, many groups are claiming to “represent Americans” and their views on energy and climate legislation.

U.S. Reps. Ed Markey and Jay Inslee spent the morning trying to get a straight answer out of two executives involved in a forged letter scandal that threatened to sink the House climate bill earlier this year.

Their inquiry boiled down to one simple question: Why didn’t you tell Congress?

The answer they came away with was never spoken by the executives — Steve Miller, president and CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), and Jack Bonner, president and founder of Bonner & Associates. Instead, it was pieced together by the two lawmakers from the timing and a paper trail. In Markey’s words:

“It was clear that it was going to be a very close vote. And it was clear that it was going to be in the coal coalition’s interest to not correct the record.”

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The world's first coal plant to pipe its global-warming emissions underground will soon grind into action in West Virginia, at a time when support for funding a global carbon capture and storage (CCS) scale-up may be waning.

The 1,300-MW Mountaineer plant, one of America's largest coal facilities, will house the first commercial CCS demonstration of its kind. The operation will nab 1.5 percent of the plant's annual CO2 output and bury it 8,000 feet in a layer of dolomite rock.

The eyes of the world will be locked on the $100 million-plus experiment in the coming months. But the hype may be getting ahead of reality.

We all know young people have a handle on the Internet like no other demographic. My generation grew up playing computer games, had PC literacy classes in elementary school, and secretly hijacked the internet for music pirating before we were teens. We have an intuitive sense of the web – its uses, its limitations, and its future.

The nation's young people are now harnessing that power for climate action, and we're beating coal's dirty PR in ways that have industry front groups shaking.