A report by the Government Accounting Office (GAO) urges the Department of Energy to reconsider a 2008 Bush administration decision withdrawing support for the FutureGen clean coal project. GAO cited math errors that it said misrepresented the project's cost escalations by a half billion dollars.rnThe report, released March 11, says DOE should reexamine its 2008 decision withdrawing support of the near-zero emissions power plant, which was to be built at Matoon, Ill. The math error led DOE to say FutureGen had nearly doubled in cost-a cost increase the Bush administration (which initially proposed the project) deemed too expensive. In ending its support, the Bush administration said the cost had nearly doubled to $1.8 billion from $950 million. GAO auditors in March said FutureGen's cost had risen to $1.3 billion, up 39 percent.
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