By GottaLaff
There is no such thing as clean coal:
The coal industry just lost another one. Alliant Energy announced it is canceling a proposed $1.8 billion power plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. Despite new publicity campaigns from groups like the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity and America’s Power, the Iowa project is the 94th proposed coal plant defeated in the past two years, according to Mary Ann Hitt, deputy director of the Sierra Club’s National Coal Campaign.
Alliant’s statement seems to recognize the new political realities of coal in the age of acknowleding climate change, citing as the reason for the cancellation:
[A] combination of factors including the current economic and financial climate, increasing environmental, legislative and regulatory uncertainty regarding regulation of future greenhouse gas emissions and the terms placed on the proposed power plant by regulators.
Reality? I remember that word. It seemed to have disappeared for about, what, 8 years?
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