Plans for building the $1.8-billion FutureGen clean-coal power plant and underground carbon-storage site near Mattoon, Ill., remain on hold while the U.S. Dept. of Energy and the FutureGen Industrial ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A new report from Congress’ nonpartisan research arm raises questions about the future of the FutureGen clean-coal project in Illinois, citing delays and other concerns. The ...

The FutureGen Industrial Alliance announced its short list of final sites for consideration on July 25 with only two states represented, Illinois and Texas. The short list of candidate sites for the ...

The Department of Energy is terminating financing of the FutureGen 2.0 project, ending construction plans for one of the most expensive and high-profile carbon capture proposals in the world. The ...

The controversial attempt to build a coal plant that captures and stores its greenhouse gas emissions took another step backward yesterday. The Department of Energy pulled its financial support from a ...

The Obama administration has pulled the plug on FutureGen 2.0 — the second iteration of a project conceived more than a decade ago to blaze a trail for the continued use of coal amid growing concern ...

The Obama administration has pulled the plug on the FutureGen 2.0 "clean-coal" power plant slated to be built in central Illinois. Ken Humphreys, CEO of the FutureGen Alliance developing the project, ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on Thursday announced it would award $1 billion in Recovery Act funds to a revamped FutureGen proposal. The so-called “FutureGen 2.0” project contemplates ...

Earlier this month, the US Department of Energy announced plans to appropriate one billion for FutureGen, a Mattoon-based clean energy project put on hold by the Bush administration. FutureGen is a ...

After nearly a decade of planning, the U.S. Department of Energy’s infamous FutureGen clean coal project is almost ready to be built in Illinois. And with a formal commitment for $1 billion from the ...