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The Facts

Electricity from Coal…Affordable…Abundant…American
  •  We have more than a 200-year supply right here in America.
  • America has more coal than the entire Middle East has oil.
  • America generates almost half of its electricity using coal.
  • Coal is more affordable than natural gas.  According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), in 2008 the production cost of electricity generated with natural gas was approximately three to five times more expensive than electricity generated from coal.  Natural gas is the most likely substitute for coal.  
Electricity from coal is getting cleaner.
  • The coal-powered generating plants built today are much cleaner than older plants. All new power plants must install the most advanced pollution controls (called Best Available Control Technology under the Clean Air Act) that older plants are not required to use.
  • Over the past 30 years, America's coal-based electricity providers have invested more than $90 billion in technologies to reduce emissions -- while at the same time providing affordable, reliable electricity to meet growing energy needs.
  • Advanced clean coal technology called carbon capture and storage (CCS) will capture the carbon dioxide at the source and pipe it deep underground, preventing it from reaching the atmosphere, making the coal plants of the future close to emissions free.
Clean Coal Technology means jobs for Americans.
  • A study conducted by a coalition of labor and energy groups in 2009 found that power plants equipped with carbon capture and storage technologies will create some five to seven million job-years of employment (one person in a job for a year).
  • A quarter of a million permanent jobs would be added during operations.

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