Carbon Capture

Fossil Fuel Emissions Rose 29% since 2000

A report (PDF) by scientists shows that emissions are outpacing the ability of ocean and land carbon sinks to soak up carbon dioxide from the ...

November 19, 2009

Japan, U.S. Forge Consensus on Climate, Cleantech

The United States and Japan will work with each other to develop renewable energy technologies and other cleantech, as well as set ...

November 13, 2009

GE, BP Partner on Carbon Capture Coal Plant in CA

GE and BP plan to jointly build a 250 megawatt coal power plant that is designed to capture and store 90 percent of emissions. ...

October 30, 2009

Carbon Capture Projects May Need to be Fast-Tracked

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects face a high risk of failure due to their high costs and should be applied across many sectors to ensure ...

October 29, 2009

Cap-and-Trade System Might Cost Less Than Critics Say

The financial impact of regulating coal-fired power plants that produce carbon dioxide emissions under a cap-and-trade system is much less than previously projected, and a ...

October 21, 2009

Goldman Sachs Sells $12M in Carbon Offsets in Largest Such U.S. Deal So Far

Goldman Sachs marketed $12 million worth of carbon offsets to CE2 Carbon Capital in what Goldman Sachs is calling the largest publicly announced U.S. ...

October 12, 2009

American Life Green Roof to Cut Cooling Costs 20-30%

A vegetative roof atop the headquarters of American Life and Accident Insurance Co. of Kentucky will reduce heating and cooling needs by 20-30 percent. The green roof, ...

September 24, 2009

Poland Power Plant Plans Carbon Capture

Poland's Belchatow power plant, Europe's largest polluter, is planning to curb its emissions with the help of millions of euros of EU investment, Reuters reports.

September 1, 2009

Thanks to Government, Carbon Capture Projects Taking Off

Touted as an alternative to alternative energies, carbon capture and sequestration for coal-fired utilities is gaining steam, thanks in part to support from federal and state ...

August 27, 2009

U.S. Spends $133B for Emission Mitigation

Investments in the United States for greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation technologies totaled $132.9 billion dollars between 2000 and 2008, according to a new study by T2 ...

June 18, 2009

Controversial FutureGen Gets Second Chance

FutureGen, a carbon capture and sequestration project that was abandoned by the Bush Administration, is getting a second chance to prove its technology. The Department of Energy ...

June 14, 2009

Carbon Capture in Action

The notion of carbon capture and sequestration is gaining momentum in the United States. For instance, the Montana governor recently signed off on ...

June 2, 2009

DOE Creates National Carbon Capture Center

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a new National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC) to speed up the development and testing of new technologies to ...

May 28, 2009

Montana Signs Carbon Storage Bill

Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana signed a bill that creates regulatory guidelines for storing carbon dioxide underground in Montana, reports the Great Falls Tribune newspaper. The bill ...

May 11, 2009

Energy Producers Taking Long Look At Carbon Capture and Storage

With the Kyoto Protocol due to be renegotiated later this year, and many nations still overwhelmingly reliant on coal for energy production, energy producers are ...

February 20, 2009

Utilities Sign On For Carbon Capture Study

Five electric utilities in the U.S. and Canada have joined the Electric Power Research Institute to host studies of the impacts of retrofitting carbon capture technology to existing coal-fired power plants. The ...

January 30, 2009

Carbon Capture And Storage Faces Hurdles

European regulatory and financial support has allowed it to push ahead with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. But the technology is facing economic hurdles and criticism from environmentalist, who say CCS is being used ...

November 13, 2008

Vattenfall, Bucking Trend, Announces Carbon Neutral Goal

Vattenfall presented its vision to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 at its Climate Signature initiative in Brussels. At the same time, there's a trend of companies stepping back from announcing such ...

October 2, 2008

Vattenfall Unveils ‘Almost Emissions-Free’ Power Plant

Vattenfall recently inaugurated a pilot coal-fired power station which it says, according to Forbes, is "almost emissions-free." Environmentalists were unimpressed. The carbon capture and storage system captures CO2 produced when ...

September 10, 2008

EPA Proposes CO2 Underground Storage Regs

EPA is proposing regulation on the injection of carbon dioxide deep underground, a process also known as geologic sequestration. The proposal seeks permission for a new class of injection wells-Class VI-- under ...

July 16, 2008

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