The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday granted the nation's first four Class VI underground injection permits for carbon sequestration to the federally backed FutureGen 2.0 carbon-capture-and-storage (CCS) project. The…
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Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.)—one of a handful of Democrats that are critical of the Obama administration's carbon rules for new power plants—on Monday introduced a bill that would provide federal…
Janet McCabe, a top air regulation official at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defended the agency's carbon rule for new power plants at a House hearing on Wednesday, even as…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking comment on its interpretation of provisions in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT 2005), which it claims do not alter the agency's…
The UK’s faltering plans to establish a carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry by the 2020s got a renewed boost in December as the government pledged to back the Drax…
A new kind of geothermal power being developed by a team of scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the University of Minnesota, and the Ohio State University could…
A communiqué drafted by participants from 22 coal-heavy countries at the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) that was held in Washington D.C. last week affirms that carbon capture and storage…
An executive order signed by President Obama today requires federal agencies to promote the "dual goals" of a greater resilience to climate change and a removal of barriers to carbon-curbing measures,…
The total costs of Mississippi Power's Kemper County integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant—the nation's only large-scale integrated carbon capture and sequestration project (CCS) under construction—have now almost doubled to…