Defense Environment Alert -- Senate authorizers are pushing the Defense Department to consider relying on coal gasification as an alternative power source to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign energy supplies. Coal gasification technologies "have the potential to produce power from coal with significantly reduced effect on the environment, while reducing the United States' reliance on foreign sources of energy," the authorizers say in recent report language accompanying the fiscal year 2007 defense authorization bill. The endorsement comes when many regulators...
