Posted Jul. 15, 2010

A bipartisan pair of coal-state senators are offering a plan to speed up technology to make coal cleaner, but they say they won’t agree to any sweeping measure to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) are pushing a plan to quicken the commercial availability of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology — vital if the coal industry is to survive under a carbon-restricted economy.

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