Deconstructing Duke Energy's Clean Coal Lingo (Video)
by Matthew McDermott, New York, NY 
on 06.17.09
It's been a little bit since we heard from the front lines of the clean coal wars, so this video clip seems appropriate. Produced by the folks over at CLEAN its a kind of deconstruction of the quasi-green sounding lingo used by the coal industry, in this case Duke Energy, in promoting their new efficiency efforts and the shell game of carbon capture and storage to hide the fact that coal is still very dirty, no matter what you do to it. Check it out.
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