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...power plants.One breakthrough provision in Massachusetts’s green energy bill would require a portion of electricity sold in Massachusetts to be derived from “renewable” and “alternative” energy sources. As one such energy source, the bill endorses coal gasification, a new coal combustion technology that in some respects is less environmentally damaging than traditional coal processing methods. At least one gasification plant is underway in Massachusetts, and this legislation could precipitate more. But as we’ll see, given the current state of the technology and the potential...
...late 1980s he turned his attention to air pollution. At the time, one of the biggest environmental threats facing America was forest-killing acid rain, due chiefly to rising levels of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NO) from coal power plants, factories and cars. The answer was simple - reduce those emissions - but the way to get there wasn't. (Any similarities to where we stand on global warming are purely intentional.) The government could simply mandate reduced emissions, or force power plants to install expensive SO2 and NO scrubbers, but that might not be efficient. To Sandor, the answer...
...coal industry would prefer not to go out of business, and it is trying to delay big emissions cuts for a decade or two, until it perfects the technology to capture and store the CO2 its power plants emit. Lieberman and Warner won't delay those cuts (Clinton, Obama and McCain don't want to either), but they want coal to survive, so their bill gives the industry $235 billion for R&D over the next 20 years. Even so, politicians who represent what's left of America's coal-fired industrial heartland aren't rushing to support the bill...
...trade environmental bill being sponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman and John Warner. Neither Clinton nor Obama is co-sponsoring the legislation, though Clinton did vote for the bill in committee. Also, the story originally stated that 25 U.S. states get a quarter or more of their electricity from coal. While true, that statistic understates America's coal dependence: those 25 states get half or more of their electricity from coal...
...MINNESOTA Proposed coal-fired power plant...