By Dan Zegart, crossposted from Climate Investigations Center. Clean coal officially died in Mississippi today as state regulators voted unanimously to issue an official order denying further money for the Kemper coal plant and beginning a settlement process with its builder, Southern Company. The order provides a legal framework for the state Public Service Commission’s June 21st vote proposing the plant continue to operate on natural gas, as it has since August 2014, instead of spend additional money to try to use Kemper’s non-functional multi-billion dollar gasifier to generate power from lignite coal. “The commission today is taking firm steps towards resolving all substantive matters associated with the Kemper Project,” says the 35-page PSC order. Click here for reuse options! Tags: Kemperclean coalcarbon captureSouthern Company
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