There are some folks out and about in town handing out “Clean Coal” shirts, spreading the enthusiasm for America’s most lucrative re-branding campaign. Matt Stoller asks one representative what’s so clean about it. Hilarity ensues:
At the CleanCoalUSA.com website you learn that in terms of carbon “clean coal” is so not-clean they don’t even pretend but they promise that they are willing to accept huge federal subsidies to work on developing magical carbon capturing technologies.
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