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Coal, pt.2: Dirty past, hazy future

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The coal industry got hit with expensive pollution restrictions almost two decades ago. Now, the government's considering putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming. Coal companies think they have a technological solution in a test project called FutureGen. In the second part of our series on the future of coal, The Environment Report's Shawn Allee looks at why they have such high hopes for it.

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