Energy agrees to share FutureGen documents

The Energy Department has agreed to turn over documents concerning FutureGen to a House subcommittee, which is looking into why the clean-coal project was scrapped.

The investigations subcommittee of the House's Committee of Science and Technology met Thursday to discuss issuing a subpoena for the documents. The subcommittee decided three of the documents it wanted were important enough to issue a subpoena for, according to a science committee press release. Those included:

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