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Schweitzer Speech Energizes the Convention

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:11:11 GMT

Mark Warner was tonight's keynote speaker, but it was the raucous Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer who worked the crowd into a frenzy, delivering a kinetic speech about--of all things--energy policy.

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Coal must be significant part of realistic U.S. energy policy

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:35:45 GMT

Energy prices, though they have receded some in recent weeks, spiked to push gasoline over $4 a gallon during much of the summer. There is legitimate concern about what heating costs will do to family budgets this winter.

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Coal forum discusses W.Va.'s role in energy debate

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:15:25 GMT

Coal is the largest part of the nation's energy profile, and a new report released Tuesday in West Virginia doesn't see that changing even with a growing shift to renewable energy.

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Op-Ed: Taxpayers should support clean coal

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:12:33 GMT

Let's look underground. We have vast quantities of coal in this country. This could give us energy security and would ease worries about running out of oil and gas, not to mention pushing down oil and gas prices as we use more coal and less oil.

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Ausra hopes to add solar power to coal plants

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:09:12 GMT

Ausra is an alternative energy company that is counting on fossil fuels to help it survive. Congress’ failure to renew a 30 percent investment tax credit for cleantech energy makes it unlikely that banks will finance plants like Ausra develops, which use solar power to generate steam. So in the meantime, the Palo Alto company is turning its attention to coal plants.

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Coal is called crucial to U.S. energy needs

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:25:27 GMT

But coal-powered generation must deal with "the 800-pound gorilla -- and that's climate change," said Steve Miller, president and CEO of the Virginia-based American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. Miller, who grew up in Owenton, Ky., said the coalition "believes in the use of all our domestic energy sources."

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Alabama Power looks for new ways to make coal work

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:57:46 GMT

Alabama Power Co. thinks the future of the state's energy grid will look very much like it does today — lots of coal, but maybe new technologies to burn it. The utility, for example, has pursued coal gasification at a plant in Shelby County and will join in a test carbon sequestration project in Mississippi this fall.

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New Mexico carbon sequestration project gets underway

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:07:28 GMT

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Southwest Regional Partnership (SWP) have started injecting CO2 into a large coalbed at the San Juan Basin near Navajo City, New Mexico. During the 6-month demonstration project, SWP plans to inject over 31,000 tonnes of CO2 into three coalbed methane-producing wells, whilst simultaneously recovering the methane. The San Juan Basin is one of the top ranked basins in the world for CO2 coalbed sequestration.
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Editorial: Bush is right about coal power

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:10:55 GMT

The electricity that coal provides makes the American economy healthy and strong. West Virginians are by their nature environmentalists. But they are also pragmatic. They know that science can provide cleaner ways to burn coal more efficiently. It is good to have a president who recognizes that.

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US DOE aids research to cut water use in coal power plants

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:54:45 GMT

The US Department of Energy plans to award nearly $8.8 million to 10
projects designed to use water more efficiently to cool large coal-fired
power plants, the agency said Tuesday.

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DOE launches carbon sequestration project

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:41:12 GMT

The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC), one of seven regional partnerships created by the U.S. Department of Energy to advance carbon sequestration technologies, has begun injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) in a groundbreaking field project in Wabash Count. Ill.

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Work starts on controversial power plant

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:38:20 GMT

Months after a coal-gasification plant obtained a crucial air permit, Duke Energy Corp.'s CEO likened the $2.35 billion plant to an "Apollo project for energy" Monday during a ceremony marking its unofficial start of construction.

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Coal-fired power plants: Energy needs demand solution

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:07:36 GMT

In a July 14 column, Jay Bookman questions how a Fulton County judge could possibly attempt to regulate carbon dioxide emissions when state and federal authorities are still trying to figure out whether and how to do so ("Georgia judge makes a clean choice for Planet Earth," @issue, July 14).

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Clean coal conference set for UACCH

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:58:20 GMT

Scarecly five months after AEP/Southwestern Electric Power Co. announced a $1 million gift to the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope, the UACCH campus will become the site of a national clean coal policy conference this week.

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Arch CEO Sees Positive Future for Coal | State Journal

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:54:33 GMT

"More and more of this coal's going to be exported out of the country," Eaves said. "It's low sulfur, it's high BTU (energy content) and I think it's a coal that's going to be desired not only in the U.S. but all over the world."

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FutureGen alliance welcomes funding vote

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:42:30 GMT

The actions of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee have the FutureGen Alliance lauding what it calls the second sign in a week that their clean coal-burning plant is on track.

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Texas Regulators Approve Arkansas Coal Plant

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:06:27 GMT

The Public Utility Commission of Texas on Thursday approved Southwestern Electric Power Co.'s proposal for a coal-fired power plant in southwest Arkansas.

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Coal operations focus on safety, environment

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:53:49 GMT

If coal mining conjures up images of dark holes and blackened-face miners, you're not scratching the surface of East Texas mining. Luminant, which operates coal mines in Oak Hill, Tatum and Beckville, is considering a fourth East Texas operation between Henderson and Laneville.

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ConocoPhillips, biofuels center ink research pact

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:48:27 GMT

ConocoPhillips has signed a $5 million agreement with a Colorado biofuels center to help find the next generation of low-carbon fuels, including fuel made from algae, also known as pond scum.

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Kentucky carbon storage test partnership formed

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:44:27 GMT

The Kentucky Geological Survey and three energy companies have formed a partnership to test storing carbon dioxide permanently deep under ground.

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