Editorial: Michigan should follow Obama's lead, and get behind clean coal projects

President-elect Barack Obama recognizes that investing in new coal-based power plants and advanced technologies that will be retrofitted to existing power plants will create thousands upon thousands of jobs for American workers and help begin to rebuild our economy. Consumers Energy is ahead of the game. Its Karn-Weadock project will be one of only 25 advanced, supercritical, pulverized-coal plants in the world designed to operate more efficiently at higher temperatures and steam pressures.

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