Futuregen
Carbon Capture a Pipe Dream
Blaise Zerega | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green
There's much to love about carbon capture, in theory. But carbon capture continues our dependence on coal-fired power plants, and does little to change the status quo.
FutureGen 'Clean' Coal Plant Loses 2 Financial Backers
AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 07.26.2009 | Chicago
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Just two weeks after the federal government revived plans to build the FutureGen power plant in eastern Illinois, two of the e...
Clean Coal Knee-Capping: Secretary Chu Makes $1 Billion Down Payment For More Dirty Coal
Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green
A lot of hot air has been emitted on the dangerous oxymoron of "clean coal. The truth is that carbon capture and storage technology is still in its experimental phase
FutureGen Coal Plant Gets Green Light From Energy Secretary
AP | HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 07.13.2009 | Chicago
WASHINGTON — The Energy Department is moving forward on a futuristic coal-burning power plant in Illinois that the Bush administration had decla...
Energy Secretary Chu Backs FutureGen 'Clean Coal' Project
AP | Posted 04.30.2009 | Chicago
WASHINGTON - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu says a futuristic coal-burning power plant slated for Illinois that languished under the previous admini...
Hey Sen. Durbin: FutureGen Dogs Bark, Green Caravan Moves On
Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.13.2009 | Chicago
While Durbin's eyes are on the prize of "38 billion tons of coal" that sit under our feet in the Illinois coal basin, he is missing the renewable energy revolution that is sweeping the rest of the nation.
Congress Digs Up Dirt on Plot to Kill FutureGen Cleaner Coal Project
Dygest.net | Posted 03.12.2009 | Home
The Bush administration killed plans to build the plant in December 2007, just hours after Mattoon was chosen over two sites in Texas, triggering alle...
Obama May Revive FutureGen Coal Project, Cost Could Be $2.3B
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT and HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 04.11.2009 | Chicago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The price tag for a futuristic coal-burning power plant that President Barack Obama is thinking of reviving seems to still be going...
Come Home, Dick Durbin: Come Clean on FutureGen
Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.18.2009 | Chicago
As the nation comes to grips with the need to shift our focus to non-fossil fuel sources of energy, it is disappointing to see Sen. Durbin turn into a cheerleader for the "Dirtiest Wing" of the coal industry.
Stimulus Bill Shortchanges Chicago Transit, State Has $700M Wish List
The Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 03.15.2009 | Chicago
With Congress set to vote Friday on the nearly $800 billion economic stimulus package, details have seeped out about how the money will be divided. It...
Big Coal Gift in Senate Stimulus Package While Coal Profits Soar
Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green
There's a new detail on this "clean coal" money: $2 billion are no longer slated for zero emissions plants, but "near-zero emissions" plants -- so much for all of those ads about zero emissions.
Dear Carol Browner: Dirty Coal Will Turn Green Recovery Gray
Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.19.2009 | Green
The incoming Secretary of Energy will have the choice of committing billions of dollars to relaunch the shipwrecked FutureGen coal-fired plant, or allocating that amount of funding to launch a sustainable wind or solar clean jobs project in the same Illinois area.
Jan Phillips | Posted 08.10.2009 | Living