Industry Focused Education, Networking & Advocacy. 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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It is burned to generate. our electricity and to make our iron and steel. It is refined to make medi-. cines, plastics, synthetic rubber, fertilizer, cosmetics, food products, paint, dyes, and even the fibers of our clothes. The history of coal is a long one, stretching back 25 centuries or more.
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ACC represents the collective interests of the American coal industry ~ from the hole-in-the-ground to the plug-in-the-wall ~ in advocating for coal as an economic, abundant and environmentally sound fuel source. ACC serves as an essential resource for industry, policy makers and public interest groups.
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The first use of anthracite was by the Gore Brothers in their blacksmith. shop at Wilkes-Barre in 1769. The coal industry grew slowly but steadily from those early days, match-. ing the growth of American industry. The great expansion in coal mining. took place following the Civil War, when coal powered the vast industrial. revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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The World Coal Association (WCA) is a global lobby group for major international coal producers and stakeholders with membership open to companies and not-for-profit organisations with a stake in the future of coal from anywhere in the world, with member companies represented at Chief Executive level..
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The WCA was founded in September 1985 as The International Coal Development Institute. In 1988 the name was changed to World Coal Institute in 1988 and World Coal Association in 2010. On its website the WCI stated, in a May 2008 version of its website which is no longer available online, that its objectives were to:
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Coal was commonly used in Europe as. early as the thirteenth century; however, with the invention of the steam. engine, which provided the powerful lifting, drawing, and pumping equip-. ment necessary for large-scale mining, coal became a major industry.
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ACC advances the power, the promise & the pride of America’s coal industry. 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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The ACC's predecessor organization, the Western Coal Council (WCC) was founded in 1982 as the Western Coal Export Council (WCEC), a private industry trade group formed to promote exports of western U.S. coal to the Pacific Rim.
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Much of the railroad network in Penn-. sylvania was specifically constructed to transport coal. The Pennsylvania coal industry saw its greatest year in 1918, when. 330,000 miners produced a staggering 277 million tons of coal worth. $705 million at that time.
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when was the coal industry founded
The coal industry was founded in 1769. The coal industry was founded on 1769.