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Energy Department unveils retooled FutureGen plans
05/07/2008 19:56:14
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| Senator Dick Durbin is threatening to block White House appointments to the DOE while looking for a way to pass legislation to keep the FutureGen project afloat until the next president takes office. |
By The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, MO - The Energy Department says it's moving on with plans to spend $1.3 billion on multiple clean-coal power plants instead of just one that developers and certain federal lawmakers want built in Illinois.
The DOE says it makes more sense to spread the money around. The project is called FutureGen and it would create power plants that capture carbon emissions and permanently store them underground.
But Illinois Senator Dick Durbin says Mattoon deserves all of the project after an alliance of big power and coal companies picked that town in December.
The DOE pulled the funding for that just weeks later, citing ballooning costs. Durbin is threatening to block White House appointments to the DOE while looking for a way to pass legislation to keep the project afloat until the next president takes office.
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