Gov. Joe Manchin met with three of his counterparts in Wyoming this week to urge federal funding of clean coal technology, The Associated Press reports.
"Manchin said there has been a 'movement away from coal,' but it won't last," the article said.
"It's going to be here. It's needed. It has to be part of the equation," Manchin said.
The governors seek federal incentives for such efforts as coal gasification, "which involves turning coal into gas before burning it. The process is cleaner than burning coal directly," the AP reports. "Incentives also could be used to get utilities to trap carbon dioxide from power plants and pump the gas underground, possibly as a way to recharge old, depleted oil fields."
Environmental advocates question how "green" some of these "clean coal" methods are, however.
Update: Federal data released this week shows "black lung disease rates among U.S. coal miners have doubled in the last decade," The Charleston Gazette reports.
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