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On the eve of Earth Day, only ABC filed an environmental feature. Brian Ross' Investigates was A Closer Look into the coal industry's $20m advertising blitz that "promises that coal can be clean." Ross was hard to persuade. He called coal "an environmental nightmare." He was doubtful about schemes to prevent greenhouse gases by capturing carbon dioxide and burying it deep inside the Earth. "There is no proof the dangerous gases stay buried." He reminded us of the fanfare when a clean coal prototype project for Illinois was unveiled by Gov Rod Blagojevich--"abandoned last year when the projected cost doubled to almost $2bn." Yet look at this year's federal spending: "Clean coal gets a new life, $3.4bn in stimulus money from President Barack Obama."
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