FutureGen Dropped From Spending Bill

Senators dropped the original FutureGen project from the supplemental war spending bill last night in a unanimous consent request.

If the senators decided that this wasn’t the best vehicle for FutureGen, so be it.

But the project still needs to be voted on, and quickly at that — the original FutureGen agreement runs out on June 15.

As I said last week, Congress should follow through with its original commitment to ensure that we have the technology to meet our goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the utility sector, and the FutureGen project as it is now scheduled to be demonstrated in Mattoon, Ill., is a key component of that effort.