Carbon Capture

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carbon Capture Storage Gains Interest In EU

Carbon Capture Storage could be the silver bullet EU member states need to substantially cut down on CO2 emissions while maintaining their existing and polluting industries, Reuters reports. But environmentalists say this will simply be ...

DOE Abandons FutureGen CO2 Project

The U.S. Department of Energy plans to pull its support of a $1.8 billion FutureGen project to build a power plant that captures pollution underground, according to this report. A ...