The Energy Department likes the idea: Partnering with big power and coal companies to build a groundbreaking power plant in central Illinois that's virtually emissions-free, trapping greenhouse gases and storing it underground. But FutureGen's ballooning $1.8 billion cost — largely on the backs of U.S. taxpayers — has the government so uneasy it wants the project's consortium of corporate backers to rework the design to get the price down. (USA Today, Monday)
From the administration that claims to favor free enterprise.
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