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Forbes takes a look at burying carbon at sea
Forbes has found a place capacious enough to store several hundred billion tons of CO2, enough to take on all the power plants within 155 miles of the coast from Maryland to Massachusetts for the next 100 years. Can you guess where it is? Both Pen...
A big environmental issue awaits PA lawmakers
For three months, state lawmakers in Pennsylvania have been twiddling their thumbs as Governor Rendell and Legislative leaders played hard ball over the state's 2010 budget.The weekend's news that a budget resolution may be at hand means that lawmake...
Feds' $2.4B to 'stimulate' carbon capture projects
On Thursday, we reported in For carbon sequestration, it's test time on a major project designed to test the commercial viability of carbon sequestration technology (more popularly known as 'carbon capture and storage').The technology, which removes ...
Is carbon capture the political key to climate bill?
"With Congress crafting energy and climate legislation, disparate lobbyists are urging lawmakers to think about China and other developing countries as reasons to develop power plants that capture coal's carbon emissions. If the United States succeed...
For carbon sequestration, it's test time
It works in laboratory bench-scale tests, but the viability of capturing carbon emissions on a large, commercial scale and storing them underground is still unproven.American Electric Power hopes to prove that it an be done with a test that could las...
Thousands of climate lobbyists besiege Congress
Just six years ago, 70 percent of the interests weighing in on climate issues in the nations capital were energy companies and manufacturers. But by 2008, those sectors made up only 45 percent of the total, despite their strong growth, because so man...
'Carbon Sequestration' coming to NJ & PA?
Carbon sequestration--an ungainly phrase that some environmentalists hope we never need to master--has made its debut, at least conceptually, in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania.Carbon sequestration itself has been used successfully in limited applic...
Princeton Library's rich offering of environmental films and discussion--is all for free!
With the holidays over, are you ready to slump into mental hibernation? The Princeton Film Festival appears to have been designed specifically to prevent any such intellectual slacking.Running from January 2 through 11, the event offers a rich jumble...
New Jersey's narrowing carbon footprint
This unexpected news arrived today from the smart-growth group, New Jersey Future:"New Jersey residents generally emit less greenhouses gases per person than the typical residents in the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas."That took me by surp...
PA's big stake in carbon sequestration tests
The nation's energy crisis would be yesterday's news if so-called, clean-coal technology can be proven to work effectively and economically.That's a big 'if' --perhaps a long shot--but it would provide an enormous economic boost to coal-producing st...
