Carbon Capture
Carbon capture describes efforts to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to prevent them from entering the atmosphere and contributing to global warming. Find articles here on carbon mitigation, carbon containment, and carbon capture and storage (CSS).
Roundup – Apple’s Solar iPhone, UK, CDC, Carbon Calculators
Apple Patents Solar iPhone
Inhabitat
CDC Invests $50m in Sustainable Forestry
New Energy World Network
Who Will Pay for UK’s Green Economy?
BBC
It’s Not Easy Being Clean
Control Global
Building Insulation for Sustainable ...
Virgin, Alaska Airlines, Continental Get Green Nod From Greenopia
Virgin, Alaska Airlines and Continental won the top tthree spots in Greenopia’s rankings of the most environmentally friendly airlines as the website updated ...
Cemex, RTI to Demo CO2 Capture Technology
Cemex USA has been awarded $1.1 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to demonstrate a dry sorbent CO2 capture technology at ...
Turning CO2 into Natural Gas
Japanese researchers aim to use bacteria to help convert carbon dioxide trapped below the ocean into natural gas, reports Yahoo, via AFP.
The Japan ...
East Coast Targeted for Underwater CO2 Storage
Researchers say buried volcanic rocks, or basalt along the coasts of New York, New Jersey and New England, and as far south as Georgia and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
Texas Instruments Sustainability Report: Normalized Emissions Jump 23%
