Industry Suggests Peabody Ties Could Limit Impact Of DOE Coal Report

Peabody Energy -- whose officials played a key role drafting a recent Department of Energy (DOE) advisory panel report recommending ways to promote clean coal technologies and domestic coal use -- could undermine the report's policy impact because of the company's undue influence over the content of the report, which includes Peabody advertising slogans, industry sources say. The industry concern lends credence to recent criticisms from environmentalists that the report by the National Coal Council (NCC) -- the DOE advisory...