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April 30, 2009
Arch Coal Foundation Pledges $1.5 Million to Promote Clean Coal Technology Research at University of WyomingThe Arch Coal Foundation today announced a $1.5 million gift to the University of Wyoming's School of Energy Resources (SER) Clean Coal Technology Center.
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April 20, 2009
Immelt: Clean Coal is Going to HappenYou know, clean, affordable energy is going to happen globally. And the technologies that are involved are -- whether it's clean coal or smart grid or renewal of nuclear energy or things like that, those are going to happen, and they're going to happen right now.
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April 20, 2009
Chinese Clean Coal Will Be Critical, a Report Says“Without strong action, carbon dioxide emissions in China could rise to an unsustainable level,” the International Energy Agency study said. “With more than 80 percent of China’s carbon emissions coming from coal, the Chinese power sector presents the biggest challenge, and will have to carry the biggest share of any reduction in emissions.”
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April 17, 2009
ACCCE Statement Regarding the EPA ProposalToday’s announcement by the U.S. EPA to propose an endangerment finding with regard to greenhouse gases is one of the primary reasons why Congress needs to pass comprehensive climate change legislation.
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April 17, 2009
A Plan for U.S. Emissions to Be Buried Under SeaExperts have thought for years that capturing the emissions from power plants will be a crucial technology for limiting climate change. But high cost projections and scientific uncertainty have meant that progress on the technique has been limited, even as the effects of global warming are starting to be felt around the world.
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April 16, 2009
Soil of farms and forests offers significant carbon sequestration potentialThe soil found on the nation's farms and in its forests has the capacity to store 650 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.
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April 16, 2009
Energy Secretary Chu, on Power Sources Old and NewChu: I would prefer to say let's try to develop technologies that can get a large fraction of the carbon dioxide out of coal. Start with 70, 80 percent and build up to over 90 percent, but start now and try to get it out.
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April 15, 2009
Peabody Energy Becomes Founding Member of Global Carbon Capture and Storage InstitutePeabody Energy today announced an agreement with the Government of Australia to become a founding member of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Institute, an international initiative to accelerate commercialization of CCS technologies. The new organization has a mandate of facilitating development of 20 integrated, industrial-scale carbon capture and storage demonstration projects worldwide by 2020.
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April 12, 2009
Salazar: There is Clean Coal TechnologyKen Salazar: There is clean coal technology ... Coal is to the US what oil is to Saudi Arabia.
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April 11, 2009
Obama, Who Vowed Rapid Action on Climate Change, Turns More CautiousWhile addressing climate change appears to be slipping down the president’s list of priorities for the year, he is holding in reserve a powerful club to regulate carbon dioxide emissions through executive authority.
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