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New coal gasification plant is a bad deal for Illinois

May 25, 2012 Mike Davis Business, Consumer issues, Energy, Environment, Illinois/Midwest 2 comments

The coal gasification plant that Tenasaka Energy wants to build in Taylorville Illinois is the kind of bargain that does not seem to have

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“Clean” coal ad wars

May 20, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Energy, Environment 2 comments

Coal is clean, right? That’s what the media-savvy American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy [ACCE] tried to get us to believe in an ad

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Let’s not forget the miners in the coal debate

May 12, 2010 Arthur Lieber Employment, Energy, History, States 2 comments

One of the challenges President Franklin Roosevelt faced in fashioning the New Deal was determining which sections of the nation were most in need

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