ENERGY SECRETARY Steven Chu is reviewing a Bush Administration decision to cancel a largescale, clean-coal gasification project because of anticipated cost overruns, an aide told C&EN last week. FutureGen was to have been a carbon capture and sequestration project that would generate electricity by burning synthetic fuel formulated at a coal gasification pilot plant (C&EN, April 2, 2007, page 48). It would have pulled out 90% of the carbon dioxide generated and injected the greenhouse gas underground near the plant. The Department of Energy has built two similar “integrated gasification combined cycle” (IGCC) projects, but this one would have been the largest at 275 MW and the only one to capture and inject CO 2 . It had been set for construction in Mattoon, Ill., when it was canceled and the money was set aside for a larger number of smaller but similar projects. “Chu believes FutureGen has merit, and he is personally reviewing it to see ...