真的有潔凈煤嗎？

Tonight we’re gonna take a closer look at one of the most controversial forms of energy and one of the most costly forms of energy， and that is coal.

President Obama is drawing sharp criticism from environmentalists because he wants to spend almost $3.5 billion in economic 1)stimulus money on so-called “clean coal”projects. It’s a big victory for the powerful coal industry. But is it even possible to get such a thing as “clean coal?”

Coal is an environmental nightmare. Worse than the 2)soot that can be seen is the invisible 3)carbon dioxide gas produced by coal， considered the leading cause of global warming.

Bruce Niles (Sierra Club): …an enormous amount of pollution. It is the dirtiest of all fuels that we know of.

Commercial: Clean coal: America’s power.

Yet a $20 million coal industry advertising 4)blitz promises that coal can be clean.

今晚，我們來探討一種最具爭議性，同時也是最昂貴的能源——它就是煤。

奧巴馬總統打算花35億美元，作為實施所謂的潔凈煤項目的激勵資金。此舉引來了環保人士的尖銳批評。但總統的計劃對威力強大的煤炭工業來說是一次重大勝利。可是，要獲取“潔凈煤”究竟有無可能呢？

煤是環境的惡夢。比產生可見的黑煙更糟糕的是，燒煤會產生我們無法看到的二氧化碳，這是導致全球變暖的主要原因。

布魯斯·奈爾斯（塞拉俱樂部）：它造成大量的污染。這是我們目前知道的所有能源中最臟的。廣告：潔凈煤：美國的動力。

然而，煤炭工業花了2000萬美元推出了廣告宣傳攻勢，他們承諾煤可以是干凈的。