Liberally

Borrowing liberally from Mark Twain’s famous quote, it would appear that reports of the death of coal as a power plant fuel “have been greatly exaggerated” as the siting competition for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) FutureGen clean coal power project continues to heat up. Last week, Ohio joined the growing alliance of coal producing and consuming states in support of locating the federal FutureGen project in Illinois, noting that it is “essential” to site the project in a location that will maximize the transferability of the project’s technology.