The Guardian‘s excellent Fred Pearce: “Time to bury the ‘clean coal’ myth.”

It is, of course, oxymoronic. Coal is about acid rain and peasouper smogs, asthma and mercury contamination, radioactive waste emissions and ripping apart mountains, killing trees, lung cancer and, of course, global warming.

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