Unemployment, and so on

[kandrathe]

IMO, we would be much better off abandoning "clean coal" and going to nuclear

Ditto.

There really isn't "clean" coal. Just "cleaned" coal. More doublethink cognitive dissonance... And, more like coal industry propaganda... which is why coal fly ash waste is not listed as an environmental pollutant.

The hazardous waste just doesn't *all* go up the smokestack and shower us with death.

The mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium, selenium and other heavy metals still need to go somewhere, and mostly that is back to a landfill, where the toxins can leech into the groundwater. Or, if your TVA(a federal government owned facility), then your coal ash sludge dike breaks and it just flows over the ground into the water system directly.