Climate Cast: How well is 'clean coal' living up to its promise?
Smoke rises in this time exposure image from the stacks of the La Cygne Generating Station coal-fired power plant in La Cygne, Kansas.
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President Obama had hoped that a Mississippi power plant would be a shining clean coal win for the administration. Instead, managers covered up problems and cost-overruns, according to a New York Times story by investigative reporter Ian Urbina.
MPR News host Kerri Miller and MPR chief meteorologist Paul Huttner talk with Urbina about the future of clean coal and why we haven't been able to master clean carbon capture.
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