'Clean' coal struggling nationwide
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May 30, 2008

'Clean' coal struggling nationwide

Tampa Electric, one of the pioneers of "clean" coal shelved its $2-billion clean coal plans last year because of uncertainty about carbon regulations. Tampa Electric isn't the only utility to pull back from the technology, which proponents believe is the best for capturing and storing carbon dioxide underground.

Read more about Tampa Electric's plants here and here.

Read today's New York Times story by Matt Wald here.

-Asjylyn Loder, Times Staff Writer

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