Tag Archives: clean coal

‘Clean Coal’ Confrontation

Posted on January 22, 2009

On the campaign trail, President Obama embraced the coal industry’s vision of “clean coal” technology. But even before he took office, a coalition of environmental groups (including Al Gore’s) launched ads ridiculing the idea as a myth: “In reality, there’s no such thing as clean coal.” We’re sure to hear …
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Not Coming Clean on Coal

Posted on September 30, 2008 , Updated on October 10, 2008

Summary The McCain-Palin campaign is airing radio ads in four states claiming that the Obama-Biden ticket "oppose[s] clean coal." That's false: Obama's energy plan, which he began promoting well over a year ago, calls for investing in "low emissions coal plants" and creating "5 'first-of-a-kind' commercial scale coal-fired plants with …
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But That’s Not the Campaign’s Position

Posted on September 30, 2008

The two new articles we posted today at FactCheck.org have a common theme: saying the other candidate for president doesn’t support something he actual does. Check out the full articles to see how radio ads on clean coal and stem cell research are false: Not Coming Clean on Coal September …
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