Report: Federal ‘clean coal’ project faces uncertain future
A congressional report concludes that a long-troubled, decade-old federal project to develop a coal-fired power plant that traps and stores carbon emissions may never come...
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Monday, April 15th, 2013
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
New carbon storage method reduces earthquake risk, study says
A team of researchers says it has demonstrated a method of underground carbon storage that reduces the risk of triggering earthquakes, a safety concern cited by some...
Monday, February 25th, 2013
Alberta carbon capture project scrapped
A $285-million green initiative to capture and store greenhouse gases in Alberta has been put on the chopping block.
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
Sea urchins offer a clue to new way to capture carbon dioxide
British researchers have discovered that sea urchins use nickel particles on their exoskeletons to effectively capture CO2 and turn it into a solid form, an intriguing...
Monday, January 28th, 2013
Canadian CCS plant would be first commercial-scale project at a coal power plant
OSLO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A technology that holds the hope for cleaner use of coal will be tested on a commercial scale for the first time in Canada next year, aiming to...
Thursday, December 27th, 2012
DOE: at least 2,400B metric tons of US CO2 storage capacity in U.S.
The United States has at least 2,400 billion metric tons of possible carbon dioxide storage resource in saline formations, oil and gas reservoirs, and unmineable coal...
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
GE to develop enhanced sensing capabilities for underground CO2 storage wells
GE Global Research signed a contract with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to build a multi-point sensing system to monitor CO2 injected into geothermal...
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
Subsea ravine leaks a new headache for carbon capture
LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Companies looking to store polluting carbon under the sea will have to pay more for tougher seabed screening, after geologists discovered a...
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012
Researchers say CO2 could be used in fracking and could be stored that way
Compressed carbon dioxide may be more suitable than water for fracturing methane-rich rock – a finding that could help the growing hydraulic fracturing industry extract...
Sunday, August 5th, 2012
Shell, Total seek more EU support for CCS, citing low carbon price
Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and Total SA (FP) are among a group asking the European Union to boost support for projects to trap and bury carbon as low prices in the...
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Pulling carbon from air should be pursued despite costs, say Columbia University scientists
Columbia University scientists say that technologies to extract carbon dioxide from the air will likely become a critical part of any strategy to stabilize the global...
Thursday, July 12th, 2012
Alberta OKs first oil sands carbon capture project
A Canadian carbon-capture and storage project backed by Royal Dutch Shell Plc was approved by regulators in Alberta on Wednesday, though the the company must agree to a...
Monday, July 2nd, 2012
CBO: Carbon capture efforts aren’t going so well
Coal may be dying in the United States, but it’s still the world’s preferred fuel for generating electricity — especially in China and India. And that’s why many energy...
Monday, June 18th, 2012
Researchers say earthquakes would let stored CO2 escape
The authors of a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences say that large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) is unlikely to work...
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012
IEA laments failure to deploy clean energy
A new report from the International Energy Agency concludes that nations have been far too slow to deploy renewable power and carbon capture technologies, and to make...
Sunday, May 20th, 2012
House GOP, Romney take aim at Obama’s stance on coal industry
Republicans have declared war on what they call President Obama’s “war on coal.” House Natural Resources Committee Republicans on Friday escalated their year-long...
Low natural gas prices threaten carbon capture projects
WASHINGTON — A federal proposal to ban the construction of coal-fired power plants that release all of their carbon dioxide into the atmosphere would seem to smooth the...
Friday, May 11th, 2012
Obama campaign adds 'clean coal' to website after GOP complaints
The Obama campaign added a section on “clean coal” to its website this week after House Republicans alleged that the president’s “all-of-the-above” energy plan neglected...
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
EU urges gas partner Russia to back carbon capture
BRUSSELS, April 27 (Reuters) - The European Commission, which has begun talks with the EU's biggest natural gas supplier Russia on cementing energy ties until 2050,...
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Oil sands mining carves up carbon sinks
There has been much debate about the environmental damage being done by oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada, from the carbon emissions to the water pollution produced by...
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