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US: Stalled clean coal plant moving ahead in Illinois
Comments 0 | Recommend 0WASHINGTON - The Department of Energy has decided to move forward on a stalled futuristic coal-burning power plant in central Illinois that languished under the previous administration.
The project known as FutureGen would burn coal for power but store emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide underground. It was slated to be built in Mattoon, Ill., but was canceled after a faulty cost analysis put the price of the project higher than it should have been.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in a Friday statement that reviving FutureGen is an important step that shows the Obama Administration's commitment to carbon capture technology.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
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