The buck stops here.

i'll take the red pill please

you'll get all the free money you want, over $780 billion.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Energy Department failed to prepare a proper analysis and made a $500 million math error when it decided to shelve an experimental coal-fired power plant slated for central Illinois, according to a report from congressional auditors released on Wednesday.

The project, known as FutureGen, would be located in Mattoon, Ill., if the project were revived and could provide a boost for economic development in the coal-rich, east-central part of that state. But more importantly, its advocates say it could provide a roadmap for reducing the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from coal production.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FUTUREGEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

“Clean coal” is the industry’s attempt to “clean up” its dirty image – the industry’s greenwash buzzword.

“Clean coal” technology (CCT) refers to technologies intended to reduce pollution. But no coal-fired power plants are truly ‘clean’.

“Clean coal” methods only move pollutants from one waste stream to another which are then still released into the environment. Any time coal is burnt, contaminants are released and they have to go somewhere. They can be released via the fly ash, the gaseous air emissions, water outflow or the ash left at the bottom after burning. Ultimately, they still end up polluting the environment.

http://www.greenpeace.org/seasia/en/campaigns/climate-change/climate-impacts/coal/the-clean-coal-myth

but now it's ok since Obama is doing it???

What the hell is wrong with these people???

The American government has the gall to claim they need over $780 billion of our tax dollars to save the economy and then they waste money on this crap!

Not to mention giving it to churches in a blatant violation of the first amendment.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Energy Department failed to prepare a proper analysis and made a $500 million math error when it decided to shelve an experimental coal-fired power plant slated for central Illinois, according to a report from congressional auditors released on Wednesday.

The project, known as FutureGen, would be located in Mattoon, Ill., if the project were revived and could provide a boost for economic development in the coal-rich, east-central part of that state. But more importantly, its advocates say it could provide a roadmap for reducing the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from coal production.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FUTUREGEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

There is no such thing as clean coal!!!

While, ACCCE promotes the benefits of coal to local communities, they neglect to speak to the reality of the environmental damage caused by its extraction and use. They fail to mention the impacts of air pollutants and mercury contamination produced in the burning of coal, which are known to cause cancer, impair reproduction, inhibit child development, damage the nervous and immune systems, and worsen respiratory ailments like asthma. They never mention the environmental impact of coal mining, which includes erosion, groundwater contamination, habitat destruction, and toxic waste. Environmental and economic costs incurred in waste disposal and land reclamation and transportation are also omitted from the dialog [14].

Perhaps most relevant to its current campaign, ACCCE proudly admits that 50 percent of our electricity comes from coal, yet they neglect to admit its contribution to climate change. The EPA documented that in 2006 electricity generation "is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, representing 33 percent of total US emissions [15]. In reality, there is nothing "clean" about the coal electicity it promotes.

http://stopgreenwash.org/casestudy_abec

WASHINGTON - Top banking regulators were taken aback late last year when a California congresswoman helped set up a meeting in which the chief executive of a bank with financial ties to her family asked them for up to $50 million in special bailout funds, Treasury officials said.

Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, requested the September meeting on behalf of executives at OneUnited, one of the nation's largest black-owned banks. Ms. Water's husband, Sidney Williams, had served on the bank's board of directors until early last year and has owned at least $250,000 in stock in the institution. Treasury officials said the session with nearly a dozen senior banking regulators had been intended to allow minority-owned banks and their trade association to discuss the losses they had incurred from the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But Kevin Cohee, OneUnited's chief executive, instead seized the opportunity to plead for special assistance for his bank, federal officials said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/us/politics/13waters.html

it's ok to be a hypocrite and a liar once or twice but just not too often.

but it certainly is to me.

"fix" the problem they created