and didnt the bush administration, in one of its first acts, make all of the "clean coal" plants exempt from the rules for emmisions and mercury that they had agreed to operate by?
So, althought "clean coal" plants are possible, even those built to be "clean" are not operating that way cause they dont need to? On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Casey Dougall < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is this guy out to lunch, or what? No clean coal plants in America? We > > have the world's largest reserves of coal, 50% of our electricity come > > from coal. > > > > > > > http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Biden_No_coal_plants_here_in_America.html?showall > > > > > Clean Coal Plants are cool, but actually getting the coal is not... > > http://www.sierraclub.org/policy/conservation/coal.asp > > Coal mining -- the extraction of coal by surface mining or deep mining > methods -- has often proved to be an unacceptable activity under past and > present practices. Mining has caused and continues to cause serious and > extensive environmental damage, including pollution of water, depletion of > water supply, destruction of land, harm to health and safety, and the > serious disruption of community life. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:270639 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
