{"id":711,"date":"2008-10-07T19:22:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T19:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/coal-not-just-a-dirty-word\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:17","slug":"coal-not-just-a-dirty-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/coal-not-just-a-dirty-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal, not just a dirty word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coal1.jpg\">These days when the expression &#8216;clean coal&#8217; is being tossed around by some politicians, policy makers and industry lobbyists, a good word of caution can&#8217;t go amiss. There is no such a thing as clean coal, it&#8217;s an oxymoron, Steve Musfson writes on<a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/postglobal\/energywire\/2008\/10\/the_clean_coal_myth.html\"> Energy Wire<\/a>. &#8220;We can come up with ways to clean up after coal &#8211; many of them very expensive and, in the case of coal&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions, untried. And we can use coal more efficiently than in the past. But coal itself is not clean and never will be. That is a matter of chemistry and geology&#8221;, he adds.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coal-is-dirty.com\/government-vs-coal-industry-so-called-clean-coal\">Coal Is Dirty<\/a> has an excellent analysis of a report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the status of policies advancing so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcclean coal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. <\/p>\n<p>Coal is just not cool, full stop. <\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days when the expression &#8216;clean coal&#8217; is being tossed around by some politicians, policy makers and industry lobbyists, a good word of caution can&#8217;t go amiss. There is no such a thing as clean coal, it&#8217;s an oxymoron, Steve Musfson writes on Energy Wire. &#8220;We can come up with ways to clean up after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9767,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}