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Ohioans know how important coal is to our economy. After all, here in the Buckeye State we get more than 85 percent of our electricity from coal.

That’s why power in our state is so affordable and why businesses come here rather than locating in other areas.

Americans for Balanced Energy Choices is touring the state to help people learn the facts about coal. For instance, did you know America’s fleet of coal-based electric plants is now 70 percent cleaner than ever before? And given advances in technology to capture and store carbon, the future will be a world with coal plants that reduce emissions to near-zero levels.

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March 24, 2008

Joe Lucas: Coal Production Boosts Stake in Industry

There is a lot of talk about whether the national economy is slowing and how quickly, leading to even greater concerns among states over how they will compete for jobs, no matter whose economic forecasts are right.

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March 24, 2008

Joe Lucas: Coal, A Bridge to the Future

Ohio has a premier role in developing tomorrow's cleaner energy, a goal we all share.
In the next century, we might get all our power from the wind, the sun or something else altogether new, that we don't even know about today. But we don't just leap over to that other, greener shore. The river between our energy future and us is decades in width and we need to build some bridges to cross.

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