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• The two faces of Chinas giant coal industry

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Jonathan Watts reports from a boom area where the industrys past and future are on show The worlds newest carbon citadel rises up between the blasted deserts of Inner Mongolia and the coal-black lands of Shaanxi province. Ordos is a city that few outside China know. But the future of global emissions, and global ...
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• In FutureGen We Trust: While Washington Procrastinates On Global Warming, a Rural Illinois Town Casts its Lot With Clean Coal

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  Downtown Mattoon A tour of Mattoon – a central Illinois town with around 18,000 people – can be kind of underwhelming. The town is off the interstate and surrounded by cornfields. There are a few bars, a 24-hour grocery store with the banner “Bob Evans sausage $1.79-a-pound,” a “feed-and-seed” store, ...
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• CCS is a good investment

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 127
  In a blog post from today, Grist reporter David Roberts’ argument that “we’re going to burn the coal anyway” is a bad reason to invest in carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). His rationale? The technology is “not a low-cost alternative”...
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• Japan, U.S. Forge Consensus on Climate, Cleantech

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 626
  The United States and Japan will work with each other to develop renewable energy technologies and other cleantech, as well as set an example for emissions cutting, after a mutual pledge from President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.The two leaders agreed Nov. 13 for the nations to work cooperatively ...
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• China And U.S. To Reach Agreement On Clean Energy

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 431
  According to the British newspaper, The Financial Times, during his visit to Beijing, U.S. President Barack Obama will sign an agreement with Chinese President Hu Jintao to promote cooperation on clean energy between the two countries.Officials are reported as saying that the agreement would cover carbon capture ...
  3 days ago

• Power Shift: Winners and Losers In the Energy Future, From the IEA

  
  WSJ.com: Environmental Capital — Authority: 710
  The IEA says the world needs to take climate change seriously. In that case, what would the power sector look like?
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• Siemens to partner with Tenaska on $3.5 billion Ill. project

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 123
  Siemens Energy Inc. has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology at Tenaska’s 730-megawatt Taylorville Energy Center in Christian County, Ill., a news release reports. Taylorville will be one of the nation’s first commercial-scale plants to use both carbon...
  5 days ago

• The facts: Coal-generated power equals affordable electricity in the U.S.

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 123
  As leaders from around the globe prepare to convene next month in Copenhagen for the U.N. Climate Change Conference to consider how to best use our energy resources in the coming decades, let’s take a moment to consider how critical...
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• Japan builds technology to bury greenhouse gas emissions

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.
  5 days ago

• Emissions From Deforestation Less than Commonly Accepted

  
  Features — Authority: 124
  Scientists and non-governmental organizations at the United Nations climate negotiations last week said the commonly accepted figures for greenhouse gas emssions from tropical deforestation are too high. In light of a new analysis published earlier this week in Nature Geoscience, a group including experts on ...
  5 days ago

• Scottish Power in with a Shout for CCS Funding

  
  SUBROSA — Authority: 530
  The main topic of discussion on Newsnicht last night was how Scotland was going to provide power without nuclear. The tory MSPs information was out of date if todays Scotsman is to be believed. Boost to Scots bid for £1bn emissions cash as rival quits race says the paper. Most Scots knew that Scottish ...
  5 days ago

• Energy policy: Atomic dreams

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  "No government has sought to influence me in any way whatever," declared Sir Frank Layfield before giving the go ahead for the last nuclear power station to be built in Britain. His Sizewell B inquiry , which occupied Aldeburghs Snape Maltings for much of the early 1980s, was tortuous and expensive. Its successor, Ed ...
  6 days ago

• Utilities given the nuclear goahead as coal falters

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Utility companies welcomed the Governments commitment to 10 new nuclear power stations as a "significant milestone" but raised concerns that plans to clean up the coal industry may be unrealistic.
  6 days ago

• Clean Coal: Another One Bites the Dust in Britain

  
  WSJ.com: Environmental Capital — Authority: 710
  Britain wants to jumpstart clean coal. Energy companies dont see it happening.
  6 days ago

• ‘We’ve got to get back into the business of making stuff’

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 123
  The lack of government investment in energy research is increasing the risk to national security and hindering the creation of breakthrough energy technologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Susan Hockfield told Bloomberg News last week. As we approach Veterans Day,...
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• The Facts: The real origin of ‘clean coal’

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 123
  Critics claim that it doesn’t exist, that it’s just a catchphrase concocted by the coal industry. In reality, clean coal technologies have been in use for decades – and we have lots of examples that demonstrate the progress we’ve made...
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• UK carbon capture competition dead on its feet says expert

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Professor Stuart Hazeldine warns only Scottish Power can deliver carbon capture and storage within the governments timetable. From BusinessGreen.com , part of the Guardian Environment Network The UKs carbon capture and storage (CCS) competition is "dead on its feet" with only one of the three projects in the ...
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• ARPA-E Carbon Capture Projects

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 629
  Department of Energys ARPA-E selects 37 projects to pursue breakthroughs that could fundamentally change the way we use and produce energy. This is the first round of projects funded under ARPA-E, which is receiving total of $400 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Five of the 37 Projects are ...
  1 week ago

• Syngas With Carbon Capture at Cook Inlet

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 737
  As the nation looks for ways to burn coal without producing so much carbon dioxide, developers, researchers, and environmentalists are looking at underground coal gasification, or U.C.G., with cautious optimism.
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• ‘We cannot leave Americas energy future to others’

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 123
  The United States needs to take immediate steps to secure our energy future, wrote Washington University in St. Louis Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial last week. By increasing our energy independence through the use of...
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