STATE SITING BIDS, DOE PACT PRESSURE CONGRESS FOR CLEAN COAL FUNDS

Congress will face increasing pressure to fully fund the Bush administration's $1 billion FutureGen zero-emissions power plant project, after the Department of Energy (DOE) announced last week that it had reached a deal with an industry consortium to build the plant and a host of states are competing for the plant within their borders, observers say. When President Bush first announced in 2003 the plan to build a power plant that would capture and sequester carbon dioxide (CO2), he promoted...