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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 12 > A push for ‘clean’ coal

A push for ‘clean’ coal

Capturing and storing carbon - the elusive holy grail of the coal industry - is the focus of new efforts spurred by billions in stimulus funds. But the obstacles are huge.

By Steven Mufson / The Bulletin
August 12, 2009

WASHINGTON " At a bend in the Ohio River, a bulky new device is being attached to a 30-year-old coal plant near the small town of New Haven, W.Va.

The device is being housed in a building four stories tall and bigger than a football field. A 150-foot-tall exhaust stack " so wide that....

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