Tech could reduce coal facilities’ emissions (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News) EDWARDSPORT, Ind. - Coal "gasification" is a technology "that has the ability to take air pollution out of the debate over coal," says John Thompson, director of the Coal Transition Program at the Clean Air Task Force, a Boston-based environmental group. Duke Energy is betting on that idea, and is now awaiting an air permit from Indiana for a $2 billion, 630-megawatt coal plant, large enough to ... [News Source]