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Article:	U.S. Coal Power Boom Suddenly Wanes - Mark Clayton (Christian Science Monitor)	View Article
Published:	3/4/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 254 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Fossil Fuels

Article Details: Concerns about global warming and rising building costs are blocking construction of new coal-fired power plants in the United States and pushing utilities to turn to natural gas and renewable power instead. Utilities canceled or put on hold at least 45 coal plants in development last year. This is a sharp reversal from a year ago, when the industry had more than 150 such plants in development and signals the waning of a major US expansion into coal.

Article:	U.S. Scraps Ambitious Clean-Coal Power Plant - Mark Clayton (Christian Science Monitor)	View Article
Published:	2/1/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 254 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Fossil Fuels

Article Details: Prospects for nearly emissions-free coal power in the United States have dimmed in the wake of the US Department of Energy's decision to pull the plug on a "clean coal" demonstration plant called FutureGen. Instead of the $1.76 billion project, which was expected to capture and store underground 90 percent of its greenhouse-gas emissions, the Energy Department is budgeting $241 million for several commercial power-plant projects that will capture and store a smaller share of their emissions.

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