Our Opinion: Bill to help coal study deserves Senate approval
THE STATE JOURNAL REGISTER

November 20, 2008 – You can't have a conversation about America’s energy future these days without “green” technology coming into the picture. For coal-rich Illinois, that means any mention of clean coal technology makes our ears perk up.

No less a source than President-elect Barack Obama’s Web site lists among the new administration’s goals creation of five million “green collar” jobs and to “develop and deploy clean coal technology.”

So you might think a project for a clean coal power plant that would use Illinois’ vast reserve of coal — which is plentiful but can’t be used by most plants because of its high sulfur content — would get the red carpet treatment here. So far, though, that hasn’t happened for the proposed Taylorville Energy Center,...

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