DOE unveils retooled plans for clean coal plants

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: May 7, 2008 at 8:27 PM MST

Story Updated: May 7, 2008 at 8:27 PM MST

ST. LOUIS - The Energy Department Wednesday unveiled its blueprint for spending up to $1.3 billion dollars on multiple clean-coal power plants. Those plants would capture carbon emissions and permanently store them underground.

The announcement launches two weeks of public comment over the revised plan for the project known as FutureGen. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin wants to scuttle the effort. The Democrat stands convinced a town in his home state of Illinois deserved the project, all of it.

FutureGen's developers tapped Mattoon, Illinois, as the site in December from the finalists that included two Texas locations. Wyoming had been eliminated as a possible site for the plant earlier in the process. DOE pulled the plug on the project earlier this year, citing costs that had ballooned to nearly double the original price tag.

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