I've seen some commercials on TV from a company calling itself "This is Reality" and speaking out about clean coal, with the logic being that no coal is clean.

The definition they use for "clean" is one that produces no pollution. That's nice in fairy-tale land, but in the real world, nothing is perfect. Absolute clean power isn't readily available yet in a form to power the country on a widespread scale.

While the organization is funded from global warming alarmist leftist groups such as the Alliance for Climate Protection, the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the League of Conservation Voters, they fall into the trap that most environmentalist groups do by going too far to the extreme.

Nobody is legitimately saying that clean coal is the answer to every problem and that pollution will cease to exist. What they are saying is that it is a step in the right direction to making less polluting technologies and may not be the solution long term, but is at the very least, a short term bridge while new technologies are refined and developed.

Groups like this are so intent on issues like this that they have tunnel vision and fail to see the bigger picture. Until they do so, they won't be taken seriously by anyone outside the fringe groups that sponsor them.