How can we continue to use coal and also address the issue of greenhouse gases?
• With the right investments in technology, we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make the science of climate change irrelevant. If we continue to fight about the science, we’re going to be sitting here 20 years from now still arguing about it. The technology isn’t 20 years away — some of it is here today. There have already been technology demonstrations of greenhouse gas emissions control for existing power plants. American Electric Power has already announced the commercial deployment of these technologies at two of their larger older units – one of them is the Mountaineer Plant in West Virginia. Unfortunately, it has been difficult to get the funding to make this technology possible everywhere. The people who say we’ve got to do something about greenhouse gases also say they are opposed to increasing the budget for investments in clean coal technology.
