Consortium members


  • Play an active role in identifying the public relations goals of the consortium and in the selection of research projects towards those ends
  • Keep the public misinformed about carbon sequestration technology

Lead Sponsors


  • Arch Coal
    Arch Coal is the nation's second largest coal producer. The company practices mountaintop removal mining, which is controversial because it reduces the height of mountains (sometimes by 600 to 800 feet), removes all vegetation and places mining waste or overburden into mountain streams, causing flooding, erosion, and water contamination. [1]
  • Peabody Energy
    Peabody Energy, previously Peabody Coal Company, is the largest private-sector coal company in the world. In January 2009, a 2004 leaked memo to then Peabody CEO Irl F. Engelhardt from Steve Miller, who was President of the Center for Energy and Economic Development, detailed the public relations and lobbying strategies being used to counteract issues including climate change, mercury, plant development, and EPA rulings. Miller details methods used to "sow discord" among regions seeking to limit greenhouse gas emissions. [2]
  • Ameren
    Ameren is a St. Louis-based corporation and among the nation's biggest investor-owned electric and gas utilities, with approximately $23 billion in assets. Ameren had 31 coal-fired generating stations in 2005, with 10,719 MW of capacity. Their aging power stations, based on 2005 data, emitted 1.2% of all U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. [3]