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Why clean coal is years away

Peak Oil News found this 3/19/2009 on usnews.com

U.S. News and World Report: America runs on coal. It's cheap, plentiful (at least for another 100 years or so), and comfortingly domestic. Two hundred years ago, it powered the industrial revolution. Today, it spits out nearly half of the country's electricity. Coal's problems, however, are ...