McCain on No More Dirty Coal

McCain's been silent on the fight over new coal plants. He has advocated cleaner coal at times. Courtesy of Grist's interview with McCain:

Grist: What role do you think coal should play in America's energy future?

McCain: I'd like to see coal gasification, and I would subsidize R&D in that effort. I'm all for government funding basic R&D, by the way. I really believe that we're going to have to use a kind of a coal [technology] that does not emit the greenhouse gases that present-day coal-fired utility plants do.