Clean Coal - Facts & Fiction

There are roughly 600 coal plants producing electricity in the US.
Not one of them captures and stores its global warming pollution.

“Electricity Facts,” US DOE 2008 (link); IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme CO₂ Capture and Storage Database (link); Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at MIT, CO₂ Capture and Storage Project Database (link)

The coal industry is spending millions advertising clean coal, but not a single clean coal power plant exists in the US today.

“Big Coal Campaigning to Keep Its Industry on Candidates' Minds,” Wall Street Journal, Oct. 20, 2008 (link); IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme CO₂ Capture and Storage Database (link); Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at MIT, CO₂ Capture and Storage Project Database (link