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Call it "Geo-blogging," if you'd like.

Here's an interactive Google Map we've started to keep track of the PR, advertising and lobbying efforts being undertaken by "Americans for Balanced Energy Choices," (ABEC) as they spend a reported $40 million on behalf of the coal industry to sell the virtues of "clean coal" in the run-up to the 2008 Presidential election.

If you would like to contribute to the map or have information on ABEC activities in your region, please drop us an email at: desmogblog [at] gmail.com and we'll add your entry.

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The $40 million "clean coal" campaign being run by the so-called "Americans For Balanced Energy Choices" (ABEC) has hit Columbus,Ohio with larger than life billboards as the latest tactic.

Of course, nowhere on the sign (not even in the fine print) will you find, "Paid for by the US Coal Industry," or "This ad campaign is brought to you in part by the largest coal company in America, Peabody Energy."

ABEC could at least be somewhat honest and advertise themselves as "Coal Companies for Balanced Energy Choices."

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They say, "Don't worry that burning coal releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any other fuel source . We'll soon 'sequester' that stuff: we'll bury it in the ground."

How soon?

Burying the carbon produced from the burning of coal, so called Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS), isn't as simple as the coal advocates would have us think. At the rate CCS technology is being developed, Richard Branson will have figured out how to send tourists to Moon before we see anyone storing significant amounts of carbon under our feet.

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The other day we revealed the coal industry's PR plans for the State of Nevada.

We've now obtained a similar PR strategy document for Pennsylvania State.

Selling the virtues of "clean coal" on behalf of the coal industry has been undertaken by an organization calling itself the "Americans for Balanced Energy Choices" (ABEC).

ABEC has reportedly received $35 million from the some of the largest coal companies in the world, including Peabody Energy, CONSOL Energy and Arch Coal to convince America that coal is the answer to our energy and environmental concerns.

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This is probably not the celebration Kool and the Gang had in mind when they wrote their hit song "Celebration."

But its America's overabundance and over-reliance on the dirtiest form of electrical generation that has one industry front group celebrating.