Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of reports about the Arkansas Clean Coal Technology Conference at the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope. The conference was sponsored by the college, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Center for Legislative Energy and Environmental Research and the Southern States Energy Board.



With the lack of an aggressive energy policy, the United States is on the verge of falling from a world leader to a third world country, an energy executive said Friday during a conference in Hope, Ark.

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