Senators call for ‘crash program’ to develop clean coal technologies

A national cap on carbon emissions would penalize states that rely more heavily on coal generation, Republican senators from the Midwest charged at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on state, regional and local perspectives on global warming. However, the idea of a federal “Apollo” program or “Manhattan Project” to develop and deploy clean coal technologies garnered bipartisan support at the March 1 hearing.

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