This is another one of those phoney 'environmental purist' issues. The forest fires we saw this year, thanks to the enviro-wackos, I wonder how many times the destroyed woodland could swallow up Escalante and ANWR combined? These two places are puny. And in the meantime, we could feed the blood soaked Red Dragon and the blood-soaked Sickle Moon with OUR MONEY. It's sick.
Arthur, I can recall as a teenager touring the local power plant- the middle 1960's-
They burned powdered coal back then, well before all these dam-fool environmental laws- and the stack gas was so clean all you could see was heat waves pouring out of it- not a trace of smoke.
The new clean coal technology is far ahead of that- I just don't understand why ( well, I do, actually ) we don't use coal for stationary plants of all kinds, instead of much costlier, rarer, natural gas.