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President Obama's campaign website added "clean coal" to a list of energy priorities late this week, days after Republican lawmakers noted the omission and a federal inmate received about 40 percent of the vote against Obama in the Democratic primary in coal-heavy West Virginia. Previously, the campaign's website highlighted "fuel efficiency" on a list of seven energy priorities, but it has been replaced by "clean coal" where the site now touts Obama's "10-year goal to develop and deploy cost-effective clean coal technology." While the addition to the website is new, Obama's support for clean coal is not. The president has officially supported investing in clean coal technology even before he was elected president, but the fossil fuel was not listed on this particular webpage until this week. In response to inquiries about the new language, Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith noted that the president "has supported clean coal technologies"...