The future of coal is at a crossroads:will utilities continue to burn it and capture pollutants at the end of the smokestack,or will they instead gasify it and remove pollutants earlier in the process? Environmentalists and many state officials say that coal gasification is the wave of the future but have been frustrated that the U.S.EPA has created barriers to the technology.Yet,the proponents of integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) coal plants recently were handed a small victory when EPA settled a lawsuit charging that it is discouraging gasification.
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