Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After

Hours. Today, as America moves ever closer to adopting more clean and green energy options,

there are unspoken realities about how much environmental damage those options can cause.

On Sunday, February 13th, I'll be reporting a story that I call Clean Energy's

Dirty Little Secrets. No, I'm not trying to reign on green energy. I think most people love

the idea of energy that's clean, but a problem has long been cost, reliability, and many people

don't know it, but the increasing question about how much pollution and toxicity is supposedly

added by clean energy when it comes to the environment. It's something I don't find is discussed

very often in a serious way, but it should be. After all, if we're just trading one pollutant

for another, shouldn't we know about that and work on solutions? My eyes were open maybe 15

years or so ago when I started digging into green energy initiatives that the government was using

taxpayer money for. I learned a lot about how they sounded really good, but tons of the money was

lost to waste and fraud, and even when the money was spent as designed, as it was supposed to be,

subsidizing certain programs, well sometimes it just made people start businesses and invest in

technologies that when the government money ran dry wouldn't sustain themselves. A lot of business

people told me that the government forcing technology that isn't ready yet doesn't always

help matters. Government can pay for stuff but cannot make the technology ready for prime time

if it's not more on that in a moment. One thing we've really done though is prop up and fund

the Chinese. On the other hand, I have seen a great deal of progress over time when it comes to

conversions to clean energy with government often leading the way in adopting electric car

policies, passing requirements that must be met. In my cover story, I will be talking to two experts

on the topic. Steve Coonin, he's a professor at New York University. He was the Undersecretary

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