KERRY COAL PLAN TARGETS KEY STATES, SEEKS CLIMATE CHANGE COMPROMISE

Sen. John Kerry's (D-MA) campaign proposal to boost clean coal is seeking to convey a more activist position on climate change than President Bush, while simultaneously assuring coal states that Kerry would favor low-emission coal technologies and only modest regulatory measures to curb global warming, environmentalists and industry observers say. While the Aug. 19 proposal outlines new details of how Kerry would implement a $10 billion plan for encouraging research on and deployment of advanced coal technologies, the document offers...