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The clean cold carolers singing lumps of coal designed to make you like coal more brought to you by the

American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. They may have been the first attempt to use popular

children's entertainment to put a benign face on the so-called Clean Coal industry, but they

apparently were not the last. A startup coal gasification company, based in my beloved

western Massachusetts, has named itself after a Dr. Seuss character, and they picked pretty much

the least clean coal-friendly character in the entire Dr. Seuss pantheon. They picked the

Lorax. You know, I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. He's the little dude who warns the one

slur that it would be a bad thing to pillage the environment for short-term profit. That character's

name was the inspiration for a coal company. Lorax AG, a company that plans to buy coal and use

what they call green coal technology, TM, to transform it into ammonia, urea, sulfuric acid, and

potentially hydrogen and synthetic natural gas. They want to sell some of those products to make

fertilizer. That is the want-to-seem eco-sensitive company that named themselves after the Lorax.

But you know, after a tip from our friends at Wonk Room, lawyers from Dr. Seuss started to fume.

They sent off a cease and desist letter to Lorax AG saying, stop what you do.

When we called them for comment on having been burned, our producers repeated attempts were all

spurned. What to do, how to get a response at the show? Then a clever producer said, I think I know.

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