Coal CEO admits that ‘clean coal’ is a myth: Coal baron says carbon capture and storage ‘does not work’ and ‘is just cover for the politicians.’

By Joe Romm, Climate Progress, 7 July 2017  Robert Murray, CEO of Murray Energy. CREDIT: AP/Douglas C. Pizac While President Donald Trump continues to tout “clean” coal, coal baron Robert Murray says it’s just a fantasy. “Carbon capture and sequestration does not work. It’s a pseudonym for ‘no coal,’” the CEO of Murray Energy, the country’s largest privately held coal-mining company, …