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Vattenfall Carbon capture and storage facility in Scwarze pumpe, Germany
IEA Says Carbon Capture and Storage Plans Have Lost Momentum Worldwide
Projects to capture CO2 emissions and bury them are finding it hard to secure funds due to a weak global economy and the lack of carbon pricing.
The financial crisis and fading government support for climate action have seriously eroded...
By Jonathan Watts, Guardian
Sep 25, 2011 | Read More
The dry gas 'Mefite D'Ansanto' is Italy's largest CO2 seep
New Research on Safety of Storing Carbon Underground Is Questioned
A new industry-funded scientific study concludes that underground storage of CO2 poses little risk to human health. At least one critic isn't convinced.
For more than a decade, carbon capture and storage technology has been heralded by fossil-fuel...
By Katherine Bagley, InsideClimate News
Sep 12, 2011 | Read More
Wyoming Carbon Underground Storage Project's (WY-CUSP) test well
Tests Begin at Wyo. Carbon Storage Site as Challenges Loom Large
Even if the project succeeds in identifying a massive underground storage location for CO2, that's only half the battle in commercializing CCS technology
POINT OF ROCKS, Wyoming—On a mid-June afternoon in the dusty plains of southwest Wyoming a team of...
By Emanuele Bompan and Lucy Flood, SolveClimate News
Aug 9, 2011 | Read More
Mountaineer coal plant
Financial Shortfall at America's First CCS Plant Highlights Absence of Carbon Price
The failure of Congress last year to legislate a carbon cap on power plants has left a hole in financing for the nation's first CCS plant in West Virginia
The coal industry is banking on America's first commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS)...
By Maria Gallucci, SolveClimate News
Apr 14, 2011 | Read More
Study Charts How Underground CO2 Can Leach Metals into Water
Study is the first to observe, for at least a year, the effects of a CO2 leak on groundwater
It’s not common for a solution to carbon emissions to also pose a contamination danger for drinking...
by Catherine M. Cooney
Dec 7, 2010 | Read More
Natural Gas, Not a Carbon Price, Spelling Trouble for Coal
Deutsche Bank report predicts massive fuel switching from coal to cleaner burning gas, even without a price on carbon
In 2009, U.S. lawmakers hoping to pass comprehensive climate legislation added tens of billions of...
by Kevin Murphy
Nov 22, 2010 | Read More
EPA and DOE: 'Clean Coal' Boom Not Possible Without Carbon Pricing
In a new report to Pres. Obama, agencies claim the main obstacle to deployment of CCS technology is political, not technical
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) declared today...
By Stacy Feldman
Aug 13, 2010 | Read More
Without a High Price on Carbon, Energy Ministers' Wish for 'Clean Coal' Boom is Elusive
At meeting in Asia, expectation of a long future for coal as a primary energy source
Last week energy ministers from the Asia-Pacific region convened at a hotel in Fukui, Japan to...
By Stacy Feldman
Jun 23, 2010 | Read More
Report: Potential of "Clean Coal" to Reduce Emissions is Overstated
Number crunchers find that capturing and burying CO2 can only avoid "small fraction" of emissions by 2050
Environmental advocates say they've poked a hole in the popularized belief that capturing and...
By Stacy Feldman
Jun 10, 2010 | Read More
Policy and Rhetoric Ignore Real Limits of Nation's Coal Reserves
There Is Far Less Recoverable Coal Than People Think
For some time now, the notion that America has an all but bottomless cheap supply of coal has been...
By Louise Rubacky
May 7, 2010 | Read More