Obama administration shuts down Bush’s ‘clean coal’ project (Feb 2015)

The Hill

This looks suspicious to me.  Hardly any of the money was spent even though it was authorized.

The article was written to look like it was a measure intended to save taxpayer money.  More than likely, the writer wasn't probing very deeply into the story.  Nobody on the left likes coal, so this wasn't something that was going to cause them to shed any tears over it.  They could always blame Republicans.  The key is that the money wasn't spent.  Why not?

It was to be a clean coal demonstration plant that would have shown how to make low carbon emissions work with coal.  The left wing mantra is that coal is too dirty.  We cannot have any such thing as "clean coal" according to the left.  The truth is that they don't want coal to succeed, so they won't spend the money even though it was authorized.

It was also a Bush administration initiative.  Politics, plain and simple.