"Yeah but there is no such thing as "clean coal". It is a myth."

For the sake of argument, as a purely hypothetical thought experiment, would you please consider the possibility that there might be "cleaner coal", that some uses of coal might be better than others? The proposed carbon tax (carbon trading) is intended to move power generation to the "cleaner" alternatives.

Also

Nuclear waste is a problem of storing hundreds of tons of waste while fossil fuel burning pumps billions of tons into the air.