Feds push multiple-site plan

Now that plans for FutureGen at Mattoon have been abandoned, Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman says multiple clean-coal power plants in various cities might be the answer.

Bodman said Wednesday in a conference call with the media that the department will investigate building several coal plants that have the same Futuregen technology of carbon capture and storage, and that could be built by 2015.

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