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In the United States, clean coal was mentioned by former President George W. Bush on several occasions, including his 2007 State of the Union Address. Bush's position was that carbon capture and storage technologies should be encouraged as one means to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil. During the US Presidential campaign for 2008, both candidates John McCain and Barack Obama expressed interest in the development of CCS technologies as part of an overall comprehensive energy plan. The development of pollution mitigation technologies could also create export business for the United States or any other country working on it. The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act allocated $3.4 billion for advanced carbon capture and storage technologies, including demonstration projects. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that "we should strive to have new electricity generation come from other sources, such as clean coal and renewables", and former Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu has said that "It is absolutely worthwhile to invest in carbon capture and storage", noting that even if the U.S. and Europe turned their backs on coal, developing nations like India and China would likely not. During the first 2012 United States presidential election debate, Mitt Romney expressed his support for clean coal, and claimed that current federal policies were hampering the coal industry. During the first Trump administration, an Office of Clean Coal and Carbon Management was set up within the United States Department of Energy, but was abolished in the Biden administration. During Trump's second term in office, the office was re-established under the name "Office of Coal".
== See also == Health and environmental impact of the coal industry
== References ==
== Further reading ==
Biello, David (January 2016). "The Carbon Capture Fallacy". Scientific American. 314 (1): 58–65. Bibcode:2015SciAm.314a..58B. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0116-58. PMID 26887197. "Can the Earth be Coal-Friendly?". PBS Documentary (Wyoming). April 10, 2009. Archived from the original on April 13, 2009. "Clean coal technology: How it works". BBC News. 2005-11-28. Retrieved 2010-01-02. Wald, Matthew L. (2008-08-27). "The Energy Challenge". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-04-30. "In Clean Coal We Trust - or Do We?". ParisTech Review. October 15, 2013. "The Future of Coal An Interdisciplinary MIT Study". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
== External links ==
"International Energy Agency - Clean Coal Centre". "National Energy Technology Laboratory compendium homepage". Archived from the original on 2008-08-29. "Institute for Clean & Secure Energy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. "US federal Office of Clean Coal and Carbon Management". "Clean Coal Technology & The Clean Coal Power Initiative". US Department of Energy. Retrieved 2009-03-29. "Clean Coal Technology Compendium". National Energy Technology Laboratory. Archived from the original on 2008-08-29. Retrieved 2009-03-29. "Utah Clean Coal Program". University of Utah. Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2009-03-29. "Institute for Clean & Secure Energy". University of Utah. Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2009-03-29.