Editing FutureGen (section)

===Plans for continuing FutureGen===
Despite the cancellation of funding by the DOE, the FutureGen Alliance continued to move forward with the project, opening an office in Mattoon and planning to buy the land for the plant in August 2008, in partnership with a local group.<ref>{{cite news
| last = Stroud
| first = Rob
| title = FutureGen sounds upbeat note, Supporters lobbying presidential candidates
| work = Decatur Herald & Review
| date = 2008-04-19
| url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=12032CCAE7632140&p_docnum=1
| access-date = 2008-04-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| last = Thilmony
| first = Meg
| title = Alliance, local group buying land for FutureGen plant
| work = Champaign News-Gazette
| date = 2008-04-19}}</ref>

During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaigns, Sen. [[Barack Obama]] pledged his support to [[clean coal technology|clean coal technologies]], with plans to develop five commercial-scale coal plants equipped with CCS technology.<ref>Barack Obama and Joe Biden: New Energy for America
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 |archive-date=2008-10-17 
}} BarackObama.com. Retrieved November 25, 2008.</ref>

In November 2008, Fred Palmer, senior vice president at [[Peabody Energy]] shared his outlook on FutureGen with the [[American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity]] (ACCCE), saying that the FutureGen Alliance would "Make a concerted effort in the Obama administration to reinstate the project and get this built as originally planned."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://behindtheplug.americaspower.org/2008/11/no-matter-what-youve-heard-futuregen-is-alive.html | title=No matter what you've heard, FutureGen is alive | publisher=AmericasPower.org | work=Behind the Plug (blog) | date=2008-11-21 | access-date=23 October 2014 | author=Lucas, Joe | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140916125401/http://behindtheplug.americaspower.org/2008/11/no-matter-what-youve-heard-futuregen-is-alive.html | archive-date=16 September 2014 }}</ref>

On June 12, 2009, the DOE announced a restart of design work for the FutureGen project.<ref name="doe12june2009">{{cite press release |title=Secretary Chu Announces Agreement on FutureGen Project in Mattoon, IL |date=June 12, 2009 |url=http://energy.gov/articles/secretary-chu-announces-agreement-futuregen-project-mattoon-il |publisher=US Dept. of Energy}}</ref> "Following the completion of the detailed cost estimate and fundraising activities," the press release states, "the Department of Energy and the FutureGen Alliance will make a decision either to move forward or to discontinue the project early in 2010."