ACTIVISTS BLAST DOE REPORT SEEKING AIR ACT WAIVERS FOR CLEAN COAL

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is strongly criticizing a recent report from Energy Department advisers which calls for Clean Air Act exemptions to encourage use of new clean coal technologies, such as plants that gasify coal to produce electricity or liquify it to produce vehicle fuels. NRDC says in a March 28 paper that the National Coal Council's March 22 report, Coal: America's Future, is a "fantasy" of Peabody Energy, the nation's largest coal producer, whose president Gregory Boyce...