American Coal Ash Association

The American Coal Ash Association (ACAA) is an umbrella lobbying group for all coal ash interests that includes major coal burners Duke Energy, Southern Company and American Electric Power as well as dozens of other companies (see below). The group argues that the so-called "beneficial-use industry" would be eliminated if a "hazardous" designation was given for coal ash waste.

ACAA set up by front group called Citizens for Recycling First, which argues that using toxic coal ash as fill in other products is safe, despite evidence to the contrary. ACAA helped set up the Coal Combustion Products Partnership (C2P2), a cooperative government-industry effort to "help promote the beneficial use of Coal Combustion Products (CCPs) and the environmental benefits that result from their use."

ACAA Members

 * AES Corporation
 * Alliant Energy
 * Ameren Energy
 * American Electric Power
 * Basin Electric Power Cooperative
 * Colorado Springs Utilities
 * Colstrip Energy Partnership
 * Constellation Energy
 * Dairyland Power Cooperative
 * Detroit Edison
 * Dominion
 * Duke Energy
 * Dynegy
 * E.ON U.S.
 * Exelon
 * FirstEnergy
 * Great River Energy
 * Kansas City Power & Light
 * Lower Colorado River Authority
 * Midwest Generation
 * Mirant
 * MDU Resources Group
 * Muscatine Power & Water
 * Nebraska Public Power District
 * Platte River Power Authority
 * Progress Energy
 * PPL
 * Public Service Enterprise Group
 * Public Service Company of New Hampshire
 * RRI Energy
 * Santee Cooper
 * Seminole Electric Cooperative
 * South Carolina Electric & Gas
 * Southern Company
 * Southern Illinois Power Cooperative
 * Sunflower Electric Power Corporation
 * TECO Energy
 * Tennessee Valley Authority
 * TransAlta
 * We Energies
 * Wolverine Power Cooperative
 * Xcel Energy

Resources
The American Coal Ash Association 15200 E. Girard Ave., Ste. 3050, Aurora, CO 80014-3955 Phone: 720-870-7897 Fax: 720-870-7889 Email: info@acaa-usa.org Website: http://www.acaa-usa.org/

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