Support the entire supply chain of coal producers, suppliers, consumers, transportation companies, terminals, traders, investors, and service firms operating in North America and globally.
Provide relevant educational programs, market intelligence, advocacy support and peer-to-peer networking forums and provide opportunities to advance members’ commercial and professional development interests.
Fight for the ongoing viability and prosperity of coal-sector businesses and workforce to ensure economic, social and environmental stability and the well-being, health and lifestyle of our nation’s citizens.
Active engagement to create a prosperous future for the entire coal value chain along with the communities, businesses, governments and allies that benefit from its existence.
Champion Rigorous, Full Value-Chain Support
Ensure that coal prospers sustainably from producer to end user—while representing the entire coal ecosystem from producers and consumers to transportation and support services.
Encourage the rights of all coal producing and consuming regions, states, counties, communities, homes, families, and individuals—and those who genuinely support them.
Fight for sustainable, community and family-supportive employment that allows hope and prosperity, including living wages, health, well-being, and quality of life.
Sustain and protect coal economies and markets, both thermal and metallurgical, while encouraging rigorous innovation and advancement across the entire value-chain
Promote Ongoing Viability & Sustainability
Foster responsible business methods, mining practices and technologies that prioritize safety, minimize environmental impact, and promote the well-being of our nation’s citizens and coal-producing workforce.
Define the future of coal with a forward-thinking commitment to innovation, technology, collaboration, and cooperation, and forge a path towards a sustainable future while preserving our heritage and embracing a future rich with transformative opportunity.
Seek harmony with viable energy supply chains and governmental policy to create comprehensive and environmentally sustainable solutions that allow a positive legacy for future generations.
Embrace the full potential inherent within coal as a natural resource, including opportunities that open sustainable pathways to commercially viable carbon-based products, advanced materials, and innovative technologies.
Advocate Awareness, Education & Policy
Advocate for the coal industry and entire supply chain by accurately informing opinions and collaborating across industries for the wellbeing of American communities and citizens.
Represent the past, present and future viability of coal and its crucial, keystone relevance for a healthy, reliable energy economy and ecosystem.
Challenge misconceptions and criticisms by providing access to responsible, accurate, unbiased, scientifically qualified data and information as an essential resource for industry, governments, policy makers and public interest groups.
Advance transformative, fact-based education and understanding along the coal value-chain, and with stakeholders across diverse audiences, newsrooms, and marketplaces.
Encourage Advancements, Innovation & Cooperation
Envision a future where coal maintains its integral role in broad energy, product and technological advancement and encourages collaborative contributions that achieve greater economic resilience and environmental sustainability.
Facilitate integrated, progressive solution-making built on independent research, objective science, balanced approaches, and proven technologies that bring about comprehensively positive impacts on society.
Embolden breakthrough methods of coal production, use and applications, including solutions in high-efficiency low emissions (HELE) output; carbon capture storage (CCS); carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS); and emission and particulate matter mitigation, including reduction in SOx and NOx.
Inspire transformative innovations in the coal and coal waste ecosystem resulting in high-value products and advanced materials, including Coal-to-Liquids (CTL), synthetic liquid hydrocarbons, hydrogen, methanol, agrichemicals, soil amendment, construction materials, critical minerals, activated carbon, tars, pitches, carbon fiber, graphite, graphene, and more.
American Coal Council (ACC) provides relevant educational programs, market intelligence, advocacy support and peer-to-peer networking forums to advance members’ commercial and professional development interests.
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