Clean Coal: Reality or Rhetoric? 

Helpful Links

• American Coaltion for Clean Coal Electricity - http://www.cleancoalusa.org/docs/about
• America's Power - http://www.americaspower.org - the website that clean coal advertisements direct viewers to go to in order to learn more about clean coal
• FutureGen Alliance - http://www.futuregenalliance.org/ - more about the FutureGen project 
• Sierra Club - http://www.sierraclub.org/environmentallaw/coal/ - maps and information on proposed coal plants across the country, as well as resources for "stopping the coal rush"  
• Source Watch - http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal:Coal_Issuesa - wiki on issues surrounding coal, including videos, testimonials, links to other resources, information on proposed plants, and news.
  
• US Department of Energy's site about clean coal http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/powersystems/cleancoal/

References

• “American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.” American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.Accessed 26 April 2008. <http://www.cleancoalusa.org/docs/about>.
• America’s Power. Accessed on April 25, 2008. <http://www.americaspower.org>.
• Biello, David. “ ‘Clean’ Coal Power Plant Canceled – Hydrogen Economy, Too.” ScientificAmerican. 6 February 2008. Accessed 25 April 2008. <http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=clean-coal-power-plant-canceled-hydrogen-economy-too&page=2>.
• “Bowie Power Plant Decision.” Sierra Vista Herald/ Bisbee Review. 11 July 2007. Accessed 25 April 2008. <http://www.energyarizona.org/archive/200708150004_bowie_power_plant_decision.php>.
• Buchsbaum, Lee. “The Future of FutureGen.”EnergyBiz. March/April 2008. Pg. 72.
• “Carbon Burial Buried” Nature. Vol. 451. 7 February 2008. Pg. 612-613
• “Clean Coal Technology and the President’s Clean Coal Power Initiative.” Fossil Energy. US
• Department of Energy. Accessed on April 25, 2008. <http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/powersystems/cleancoal/>.
• “Clean Coal Technology: How it Works.” BBC News. 28 November 2008.   25 April 2008. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4468076>.
• “Coal’s Dirty Little Secrets.” Center for American Progress Action Fund. 30 November 2007.Accessed 25 April 2008. <http://www.americanprogressaction.org/progressreport/2007/11/pr20071130>.
• “DOE Drops Clean Coal Plants to Focus on Carbon Capture.” ENR: Engineering News-Record.Vol. 260. Issue 5. February 11, 2008. Pg. 12.
• Edwards, Steven. “IGCC Technology: A Promising – and Complex- Solution.” World Energy.V8. N3. 2008. <http://www.worldenergysource.com/articles/text/edwards_WE_v8n3.cfm>.
• FutureGen Alliance. January 2008. Accessed April 25, 2008.<http://www.futuregenalliance.org/>.
• “FutureGen Clean Coal Projects.” US DOE. 27 February 2008. Accessed 25 April 2008. <http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/powersystems/futuregen/index.html>.
• “FutureGen chairman urges House panel not to abandon progress at Mattoon.” FutureGen Alliance. 15 April 2008. Accessed 25 April 2008. <http://www.futuregenalliance.org/news/releases/pr_04-15-08.stm>.
• “Is Clean Coal Feasible?” The Futurist. Novermber-December 2007. Pg. 8-9.
• LaPlaca, Nancy. “The Myth of Clean Coal: Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Power Plants.”  Energy Justice Network. <http://www.energyjustice.net/coal/igcc/>.
• Loder, Asjylyn. “ ‘Clean Coal?’ What about the carbon?” Tampabay.com. St. Petersburg Times. 29 September 2007. Accessed 25 April 2007. <http://www.sptimes.com/2007/09/29/news_pf/Hillsborough/_Clean__coal_What_abo.shtml>.
• Mufson, Steven. “Coal Industry Plugs Into the Campaign.” WashingtonPost.com. 18 January 2008. 25 April 2008. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011702837.html>.
• Murawski, John. “Clean coal would cost billions.” NewsandObservor.com. 24 March 2007. <http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/556925.html>.
• Pelley, Janet. “Is EPA blocking clean coal technology?” Environmental Science and Technology. 1 January 2007. Pg. 11-12.
• Porier, Shar. “Bowie Power Plant faces opposition at town hall.” Arizona Range News. Wilcoxrangenews.com. 23 August 2007. Accessed 25 April 2008. <http://www.willcoxrangenews.com/articles/2007/08/23/news/news4.txt>.
• “Power plant decides to burn natural gas instead of coal.” Associated Press. The Arizona Republic. September 2, 2007.<http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0902powerplant0902.html>.
• Rosenthal, Elisabeth. “Europe Turns Back to Coal, Raising Climate Fears.” The New York Times. 23 April 2008. <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/europe/23coal.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin>.
• Snell, Marilyn Berlin. “Can Coal be Clean?: New ways to burn a dirty fuel.” Sierra Magazine. January/February 2007. Accessed on April 9, 2008. <http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200701/coal.asp>.
• “Turning dirty coal into clean energy.” Morning Edition. 25 April 2005. NPR.org. Accessed onApril 9, 2008. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=5356683>.
• “US pulls plug on showcase clean coal demonstration plant” Professional Engineering. 13 February 2008. Pg. 5.

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