As US presidential election nears, a new debate over ‘clean coal’

StateImpact: Imag­ine a chart track­ing U.S. green­house gas emis­sions since 2005. Do you imag­ine a line head­ing up, or down? It’s down actu­ally. Emis­sions are decreas­ing, thanks to the weak econ­omy, more use of wind and solar power, and the sud­den influx of cleaner burn­ing nat­ural gas. So where does that leave Pennsylvania’s for­mer energy titan, king coal? If you’re watch­ing TV or rid­ing down the turn­pike, you’ll notice the coal indus­try is work­ing hard to pol­ish its reputation. The clean......

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