EcoWatch: In the same days an entrepreneur went on federal trial for fraud over an unproven "clean coal" scheme, President Obama`s Department of Energy (DOE) gave a game-changing approval for a $1 billion gift to continue the unproven FutureGen "clean coal" boondoggle in Illinois.
Kind of ironic, ain`t it--if it weren`t so tragic.
On the heels of the West Virginia coal-cleaning chemical disaster, with Illinois residents already besieged by a toxic coal rush that has seen production increase by an estimated...