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Coal has been a constant for ACCCE head in a varied career

With a background in national politics, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity's Mike Duncan comes back to mining roots Duncan Mike Duncan says some of his earliest memories concern coal. Both grandfathers, at various times, were miners. After 67 years, his dad still has a country store in Kentucky where he sold supplies to miners when coal was booming in Central Appalachia, where Duncan has always made his home. After law school, he and his wife bought a controlling interest in a Kentucky bank. For 40 years, they lent money to small coal companies and miners themselves. He's back in Appalachia often, recently visiting along with six staffers. "It's part of… Read More