CLEAN COAL: In reality, there’s no such thing as clean coal

On clean coal:

[M]ore PR than reality.

The Reality Campaign has two good ads attacking the myth of clean coal:

Two good reasons why coal isn’t clean:

Mountaintop removal

Coal companies lazily use mountaintop mining to blast away mountaintops to bring the consumer cheap coal, while valleys are filled in—destroying sensitive aquatic ecosystems, impacting property values, increasing erosion, and threatening communities with coal sludge or slurry ponds that store accumulated waste—basically corporations making a profit at the expense of the environment and local communities. So how is coal clean?

Toxic fly ash: From TIME

The “clean coal” campaign was always more PR than reality — currently there’s no economical way to capture and sequester carbon emissions from coal, and many experts doubt there ever will be.

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As we grapple with global warming, coal can be cheap or it can be (somewhat) clean. But the sea of ash in Tennessee shows it can’t both, and that’s a reality we need to face as we plot America’s energy future