Addressing Global Climate Change
Developing Cleaner Coal Technologies
Coal is a reliable, affordable, and abundant domestic energy resource. The President’s Coal Research
Initiative is a $2 billion funding commitment over 10 years to foster the development and use of cleaner
coal technologies. This program serves to improve the environmental performance of coal power
plants, by reducing emissions and improving efficiency. A key element of this initiative is the $1 billion
FutureGen project, described above. As America puts its ingenuity into the creation of new, clean-coal
technologies, it will help not only Americans, but developing nations that also base their economies on
coal.
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