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Coal’s Carbon Capture in Question
Energy experts say the coal industry’s future could rest on the ability to capture carbon from coal-fired power plants, reducing the fuel’s greenhouse gases. But the Government just pulled the plug on the leading carbon capture project, raising serious do
The coal industry says it can trap its global warming gases and put them back in the ground where they came from – a process called carbon capture and storage. But the federal government just pulled the plug on the biggest carbon capture project, Futuregen. Living on Earth’s Jeff Young reports on the big questions about carbon capture and coal’s future.