Investigating the Myth of Clean Coal - Sara Bernard

The United States has been starving for a cheap, domestic and relatively clean fuel source. And, in a throwback, some companies are turning to coal. This is the case in Kemper County, Mississippi, where Southern Company built a plant built by "cheap, clean" coal burning processes. After a months-long investigation, Sara Bernard is less optimistic than the power company seems to be. The $6.17 billion plant is among the most expensive ever built in the United States, but to help cover costs, it has been trapping carbon dioxide emissions, which would seems good. But the Southern Company is, in turn, selling those emissions to oil companies which are pumping them into the earth to extract more fossil fuels. Bernard's thorough investigation of Mississippi's clean coal plant can be found at Grist.