How's Obama Doing on Our Transition from Dirty Coal to Clean Energy?

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Let's hope the next 100 days bring us a real green jobs package for the coalfields, a Coal Miners G.I. bill for retraining and education, more coal-fired plant conversions, and a resolution to the murkiness in the Waxman-Markey climate change bill that will effectively shift us away from the destruction of extracting coal, transporting coal, burning coal, storing coal ash, and the chimera of burying CO2 in the earth.

In the meantime, wunderkind cellist Ben Sollee from Kentucky asks for a few honest words: