Noticias
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enero 05, 2009
Letter: Make clean coal part of stimulus packageCathy Coffey: "We are encouraging the FutureGen carbon capture and sequestration project to be part of a new economic stimulus package. Yet, while Future Gen is very important, it is not the only party to the wedding of coal-generated power and vastly reduced greenhouse gas emissions."
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enero 04, 2009
Editorial: Michigan should follow Obama's lead, and get behind clean coal projectsPresident-elect Barack Obama recognizes that investing in new coal-based power plants and advanced technologies that will be retrofitted to existing power plants will create thousands upon thousands of jobs for American workers and help begin to rebuild our economy. Consumers Energy is ahead of the game. Its Karn-Weadock project will be one of only 25 advanced, supercritical, pulverized-coal plants in the world designed to operate more efficiently at higher temperatures and steam pressures.
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enero 03, 2009
Saving Lives with CoalCoal helps keep American homes, businesses, factories, airports, schools and hospitals humming, and provides myriad benefits that never get mentioned by anti-coal factions. Thanks to coal-based electricity, CT scans, x-rays, colonoscopies and other examinations detect cancer, heart disease and other health threats, saving numerous lives every year.
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diciembre 22, 2008
Statement: ACCCE Details More than 80 CO2 Capture and Storage ProjectsThese projects represent all facets of carbon capture and storage. They are intended to pave the way for coal-based electricity generation technologies be used in ways that not only control pollutants regulated by federal clean-air statutes, but break new ground in achieving significant reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide.
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diciembre 22, 2008
Coal-fired power is given the green lightBritain will not ban the construction of coal-fired power stations while new technology is being developed to cut their carbon emissions, Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, has said. In an interview with the Financial Times, the energy secretary stated: "I will not take a position which ignores our security of supply needs."
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diciembre 19, 2008
ACCCE Statement on Completion of Clean Coal Power Initiative“The Clean Coal Power Initiative represents the most recent partnership between the federal government and private industry to work together and share the cost of bringing new technologies to the marketplace. Anyone who doubts the success of this ongoing effort – as measured in terms of cleaner air, increased energy independence, and lower energy costs for the American consumer – is not grading very fairly."
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diciembre 17, 2008
Mississippi Power plans for clean coal plant by 2015Mississippi Power is planning to build a $2 billion plant in Kemper County that could be become the first full-scale clean coal generating plant in the United States, Mississippi Power chief executive officer Anthony Topazi told the Hattiesburg American editorial board this afternoon. The plant is anticipated to open between 2013 and 2015.
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diciembre 16, 2008
Legislation sought to aid clean-coal developmentThe Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce is asking lawmakers to craft legislation that could lure clean-coal technology to the region.
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diciembre 08, 2008