Can Coal Be Clean? The Promise of Climate Change Technology [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]
Dr. Moniz and Representative Boucher discuss climate change legislation and clean coal technologies.
Speakers: Rick Boucher, U.S. Representative from Virginia (D)
Ernest J. Moniz, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presider: Michael A. Levi, Fellow for Science and Technology and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations
September 18, 2007
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