Argument: Coal is made of carbon, and any combustion of it contributes to carbon dioxide, the primary driver of anthropogenic climate change. Putting the word

Argument: Coal is made of carbon, and any combustion of it contributes to carbon dioxide, the primary driver of anthropogenic climate change. Putting the word "clean" behind it refers only to reduction of sulfur/nitrogen oxides, and does nothing to solve the carbon dioxide. It's a solution to the acid rain problem from several decades ago, but has minimal bearing on the current problem of climate change. At this point, it's a marketing term designed to confuse and confuddle the issue, and to imply that it's even possible for coal to be "clean". There is everything wrong with an energy department facilitating the same old energy technologies that have no substantial differences in the ways that matter.