No need to be shy when touting clean coal technology

                                    

As you know, we’ve been stopping by as many campaign events as we can to help voters tell presidential candidates to make clean coal a part of their energy platforms.

Candidates should feel proud to voice their support for clean coal technology. There is a strong constituency supporting them when they talk about addressing America’s energy future with a fuel source that is affordable and domestically abundant. After all, the United States has more coal than any other fuel.

Politically, it’s smart to side with clean coal. It helps candidates when they talk about keeping energy costs low. It will help them on the stump to speak out in favor of clean coal technology

But it’s also the right thing to do. If candidates — Democratic or Republican — care about ensuring that our country is not dependent on energy supplies from volatile regions of the world, then they should support efforts to make coal as clean as possible.

Remember: If we don’t develop the technology here, it won’t make its way to China, India and other places in the developing world that will continue to use massive amounts of coal no matter what we do in the United States. And if we want to solve a global issue such as climate change, China and India must be part of the solution.