S&P Capital IQ Commodity Insights | Oct. 25, 2024

Instead of public campaigns centered on a cultural war, coal advocacy now focuses on utilities lobbying state authorities to slow the clean energy transition, said Bruce Nilles, executive director of Climate Imperative and an early leader within the Sierra Club’s highly influential Beyond Coal campaign. Several utilities have delayed plans to close coal-fired power plants in recent months.

“Actually getting these coal plants retired has been thwarted by a pretty savvy effort to confuse policymakers that somehow we have this crazy demand growth, and we can’t possibly meet it with clean energy,” Nilles said. “I think [the coal sector is] not yet impotent — they’ve been doing a bang-up job in a good number of states creating this sense of a crisis that’s resulting in where we are today.”

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