Lawmakers ask Bush to reconsider FutureGen decision
MATTOON – Two Illinois congressmen held a telephone conference call with President Bush while he was aboard Air Force One on Wednesday afternoon to ask him to reconsider a decision by the Energy Department to pull its support from building FutureGen in Mattoon.
Energy Secretary Sam Bodman has announced plans to restructure FutureGen, abandoning the Mattoon project in favor of building several coal plants that have the same Futuregen technology of carbon capture and storage.
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