The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report that says clean coal is expensive, decades away, and won't be developed without stringent carbon regulations in place first.  

“This technology is going to save the existing [coal] fleet and save the American electrical consumer trillions of dollars,” he claimed, while acknowledging that so-called clean coal “could raise rates in some areas from 5-7 cents per kilowatt-hour to as much as 15 cents per kilowatt-hour.”  How is tripling our energy bills going to save us trillions of dollars?

Mark your calendars! On Thursday, July 17, 2008, the coal industry front group "American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity" (ACCCE) is co-sponsoring a conference in Hope, Arkansas.

From the press release:

Myth #1: "America has more than 200 years of available coal reserves." The United States is the ‘Saudi Arabia’ of coal.

As author Jeff Goodell reveals in his book “Big Coal,” the