What Really Happened in Durban–and Will It Be Enough to Combat Climate Change?
December 14th, 2011 |
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”—Dickens’s phrase might serve to sum up the reactions to what is now officially called the “Durban Platform for Enhanced Action” on climate change. This two-page document, reminiscent in its brevity of the Copenhagen Accord from 2007, purports to set the global community on [...]
Keep reading »Advanced CO2 Capture Project Abandoned Due to “Uncertain” U.S. Climate Policy
July 14th, 2011 |
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Citing a weak economy and the "current uncertain status of U.S. climate policy," utility American Electric Power has decided not to proceed with plans to expand CO2 capture and storage technology (CCS) efforts at its Mountaineer power plant in West Virginia. "At this time it doesn’t make economic sense to continue work on the commercial [...]
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