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August 25, 2009
Affordable Energy Awareness Comes to ISURepresentatives from the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) stopped at Indiana State University Tuesday. They're touring college campuses across Indiana. The group fears college tuition will dramatically increase if coal does not continue to be the state's main source for electricity.
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August 22, 2009
AEP Seeks Stimulus Money For Carbon Capture ProjectsAmerican Electric Power wants $334 million in federal stimulus money to build the country's first commercial-scale system to capture carbon dioxide emitted from coal-fired power plants and bury it underground. The system would be used in New Haven, W.Va., at AEP's Mountaineer plant, home to one of the biggest fossil-fueled power generators in the world.
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August 22, 2009
PNNL Develops Liquid That Can Clean Power Plant EmissionsThe Oregonian reports, “Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., have developed a reusable organic liquid that can pull harmful gases such as carbon dioxide or sulfur dioxide out of industrial emissions from power plants.
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August 21, 2009
Elkton Clean Coal Research Facility Receives EndorsementIn continuing coverage from Friday’s briefing, the Harrisonburg Daily News Record reported that “a proposed clean-coal research facility in Elkton, Va. is garnering more attention as proponents continue to push for the project.” After a presentation Thursday, the “East Rockingham Business Council, a committee of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce, endorsed the proposal.”
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August 20, 2009
ACCCE Team Visits ArkansasACCCE, an organization funded by coal-based electric utilities, freight railways, coal producers, barge and trucking companies and manufacturers, sent out teams throughout eight coal-producing states to distribute information about “clean coal” and to urge people to contact their elected representatives to make sure any climate change bill will, according to their handout, “protect consumers from higher energy costs and keeps jobs in Arkansas.”
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August 19, 2009
Project Seeks To Use Supersonic Shock-Waves For CO2 CompressionAn Energy Department-backed project is using supersonic shock-wave technology used in jet engines to compress carbon dioxide for storage at coal-fired power plants and other industrial sites. The goal: Develop the cheapest, fastest and most efficient compressors.
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August 18, 2009
British Official Urges Development Of CCS TechnologyDavid Kidney, Undersecretary of state for the Department of Energy and Climate Change in the UK, writes, "With world demand for coal set to increase by over 60% over the period 2006-30, according to the International Energy Agency, as countries like China and India build the new power stations they need, it is clear that there is no credible solution to climate change without CCS."
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August 17, 2009
Cap-and-Trade Interests Try to Break Through Health Care ClutterWith health care town halls continuing to dominate the August recess, energy and environmental interest groups are making an aggressive lobbying push to bring the climate change debate to the fore. The ACCCE launched a $1 million, two-week national ad buy Friday. The ad campaign, called “Real People, Real Stories,” will largely air on cable networks. Still, ACCCE Senior Vice President of Communications Joe Lucas acknowledges that grabbing the public’s attention is difficult while the health care debate is front and center at town halls across the country.
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August 16, 2009
Work Goes On Quietly At West Virginia Carbon Sequestration ProjectQuietly, and with little fanfare, an experiment is in progress in West Virginia to see if carbon extracted from coal can be safely stored thousands of feet below the earth's surface. For some 18 months, the research has been undertaken at the Mountaineer plant of American Electric Power Co. in New Haven to see if the by-product of coal can be put away without harming the environment - an integral part of clean coal technology.
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August 13, 2009
Report: Climate Bill Could Cost Two Million Jobs By 2030The Hill reports that on Wednesday the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) released a study that claimed that “under a high-cost scenario the House global warming bill could reduce economic growth by 2.4 percent and cost 2 million jobs by 2030,” which “will likely provide opponents of capping carbon more ammunition and could add to the angst of senators from industrial states” with “as much as 66 percent of the total job loss” coming from manufacturers.
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