Coal-burning plants are the world’s biggest producers of electricity. But as climate change worries mount, the billions of tons of greenhouse gases they emit each year have put in doubt coal’s future as a cheap, home-grown source of electricity.

The United States, through the FutureGen project, had hoped to help change that by developing the world’s first full-scale nearly emission-free coal plant in Downstate Illinois. But with the billion-dollar project in financial restructuring and on hold, a small pilot plant in Spremberg is now spearheading the global push to make coal a clean fuel.

In this old industrial town in the heart of the former East Germany, researchers have launched what could be a revolution for a much-maligned fuel: the world’s first nearly emission-free coal-fired power plant.

Coal-burning plants are the world’s biggest producers of electricity. But as climate change worries mount, the billions of tons of greenhouse gases they emit each year have put in doubt coal’s future as a cheap, home-grown source of electricity.

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