This is cross-posted from: here

I’ve documented plenty of reasons why coal use needs to be phased out, and “clean coal” is a joke. In case you need a recap…..The coal industry has gotten a lot of much deserved negative press ever since the coal slurry dam disaster that happened a few months ago. This brought to light that, maybe we should regulate our coal ash. Of course, no amount of regulation will ever make especially considering that it’s extraction often involves the very destructive mountaintop removal. Oh..and coal is getting more expensive.

Now there is ANOTHER giant nail in the coffin. This nail is actually pretty sad. There’s been a new report released by the House Committee on Science and Technology which found that the Bush Administration was never actually seriously developing clean coal technology and their entire “”FutureGen Program”” was pretty much PR the entire time. So not only is there no such thing as “”clean coal””