Energy Policy Earmarks Billions For Clean Coal Technology

摘要

The role of coal in the Energy Policy Act of 2005-or perhaps more appropriately the role of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 in coal-was the topic chosen by Dr. Frank Burke as his Keynote Address at Coal Prep 2006 in Lexington, Kentucky May 2-4 - a challenge falling somewhere between a Herculean task and a Gideon Knot. Dr. Burke, vice president research and development for CONSOL Energy, Inc., noted in an interview with Coal People that his mission was not to sell something, but to explain it. "The Energy Policy Act is massive both in scale and physical size, amounting to 1,724 pages, Dr. Burke said. "It's not exactly light reading."