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carbon capture and storage

In a Bid to Save Its Coal Industry, Wyoming Has Become a Test Case for Carbon Capture, but Utilities are Balking at the Pricetag

Under a 2020 law, utilities must generate some of their power from coal plants fitted with technology that captures carbon, but in recent filings to regulators, two companies are warning about the cost and environmental impacts.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Stacks emit steam at the Jim Bridger Power Plant Feb. 14, 2001 near Point of Rocks, Wyoming. Credit: Michael Smith/Newsmakers
American Electric Power's Mountaineer coal power plant opened a carbon capture unit (center right), alongside the plant's cooling tower and stacks in 2009. The project later died. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Proponents Say Storing Captured Carbon Underground Is Safe, But States Are Transferring Long-Term Liability for Such Projects to the Public

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A detail of the pilot carbon dioxide capture plant is pictured at Amager Bakke waste incinerator in Copenhagen on June 24, 2021. Credit: Ida Guldbaek Arentsen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images

Carbon Capture Takes Center Stage, But Is Its Promise an Illusion?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A worker watches as molten iron flows into a furnace for purification and alloying to become steel at the ThyssenKrupp steelworks on Jan. 13, 2010 in Duisburg, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Can the World’s Most Polluting Heavy Industries Decarbonize?

By Fred Pearce

Biggest “Direct Air Capture” Plant Starts Pulling in Carbon, But Involves a Fraction of the Gas in the Atmosphere

By Leslie Hook, Financial Times

Equipment installed as part of the Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project stands at the NRG Energy Inc. WA Parish generating station in Thompsons, Texas, on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. The project has since ceased operations indefinitely. Credit: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Companies Are Quietly Scoring Big Money for Their Preferred Climate Solution: Carbon Capture and Storage

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Will the Democrats’ Climate Legislation Hinge on Carbon Capture?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Activists gathered outside the White House in May to demand that President Joe Biden refuse to compromise on election promises regarding climate change and social justice. (Credit: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Green New Deal Network)

With Trump Gone, Old Fault Lines in the Climate Movement Reopen, Complicating Biden’s Path Forward

By Marianne Lavelle

Two employees work on pipes carrying liquid CO2 on Sept 8, 2008 at a power station near Berlin, Germany. Credit: Michael Urban/DDP/AFP via Getty Images

For a Climate-Concerned President and a Hostile Senate, One Technology May Provide Common Ground

By Nicholas Kusnetz

EPA and DOE: 'Clean Coal' Boom Not Possible Without Carbon Pricing

By Stacy Feldman

Report: Potential of "Clean Coal" to Reduce Emissions is Overstated

By Stacy Feldman

British Progress Toward Carbon Capture and Storage Drags

By Guest Writer

Obama Administration Releases First Funds for Elusive 'Clean Coal'

By Stacy Feldman

Will West Virgina's CCS Demo Make a Dent in 'Clean Coal's Problems?

By Stacy Feldman

CCS carbon capture and sequestration

Exuberance over Carbon Capture and Storage Ignores Time Frame for Deployment

By Laura Shin

Reality Check: 'Clean Coal' in the European Union

By Stacy Feldman

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