'Clean Coal" Button
notes: label: Description
content: Coal-fired power plants came under mounting public health and environmental criticisms during the late 20th century. In their self-defense, utilities and mining interests argued that “clean coal” technologies would allow them to mitigate various power-plant emissions, including the capture and underground storage of carbon dioxide. As this pin contends, these advanced technologies would enable the generation of both clean and (relatively) inexpensive electric power.
label: Description
content: The button is among the more than 1,500 pin-backed environmental buttons that Gerald H. Meral donated to the National Museum of American History. Meral spent his career addressing natural resource concerns for the California state government and California-based non-governmental organizations. He began assembling his button collection in 1970.
topic: label: Subject
content: Environmental Movement
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Environmental Buttons
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0014.0384
label: accession number
content: 2003.0014
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0014.0384
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .33 cm x 5.4 cm; 1/8 in x 2 1/8 in