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Focuses on the challenges faced by the United States government in trying to motivate old coal-fired electric power plants to clean up emissions. U.S. President George W. Bush's goal to develop a zero-emissions coal-fired power plant that creates hydrogen and electricity and captures and injects carbon dioxide deep into the earth; Costs to human health brought about the increased use of coal.

The article reports that the administration of U.S. President George Bush appealed in March 2008 a federal court's decision declaring unlawful an Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regulation to control mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. The EPA regulation limited the amount of neurotoxic metal that utilities could emit and allowed them to trade their mercury emissions permits.