Carbon Sequestration News
This select list of news items about carbon sequestration, also known as carbon capture and storage, is updated regularly by the communications team at the Jackson School of Geosciences. What is carbon sequestration/capture and storage?
2009
Suppliers of carbon capture technology hit paydirt
Mail & Guardian Online, June 10, 2009
CO2 Conversion a Carbon Capture Alternative
Reuters, June 9, 2009
We’ve got no choice but nukes and carbon-capture tech, says Jeffrey Sachs
Grist, June 1, 2009
Future U.S. Department of Energy facility in Wilsonville, Alabama will study reducing carbon dioxide emissions
The Birmingham News, May 28, 2009
Nations Gamble on Carbon Capture
Reuters, May 28, 2009
U.S. to get its first carbon capture and sequestration test in 2011
International Business Times, May 22, 2009
Pumping CO2 underground best hope for climate: Shell
Reuters, May 7, 2009
Carbon Storage Research Receives $15 Million at The University of Texas at Austin
JSG News, April 29, 2009
Capturing carbon from coal plants: Is it feasible?
Earth, April 16, 2009
DOE Releases Report on Techniques to Ensure Safe, Effective Geologic Carbon Sequestration
Docuticker, March 19, 2009
Manmade biomass coal offers storage and fuel
CNET News, March 19, 2009
Stimulus Money Puts Clean Coal Projects on a Faster Track
New York Times, March 16, 2009
Carbon capture and storage: Absolute necessity or crazy scheme?
Scientific American, Mar 6, 2009
Trouble in store
The Economist, March 5, 2009
2008
Exxon Could Benefit from Emissions Work
Wall Street Journal, December 26, 2008
Energy secretary nominee Chu sees coal as 'nightmare'
Charleston Gazette, December 17, 2008
Algeria's Carbon-Capture Experiment
Business Week, December 15, 2008
UN Envoys Drop Plan to Back Carbon-Capture Projects (Update3)
Bloomberg.com, December 10, 2008
Would burying CO2 help in climate crisis?
USA Today, December 6, 2008
Department of Energy awards $66.9 million to MSU for carbon sequestration
Montana State University News, November 18, 2008
A quicker, easier way to make coal cleaner
MIT News, November 17, 2008
IEA urges a quick and global push to develop and deploy Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies
International Energy Agency, October 20, 2008
New German Facility Begins Testing CO2 Sequestration
Spiegel Online, September 9, 2008
Underground CO2 credits planned
Tulsa Beacon, August 18, 2008
U.S. exchanges launch cap and trade CO2 contracts
Reuters, August 18, 2008
Carbon sequestration frustration
Science News, August 13, 2008
Carbon Capture Milestone In China
Science Daily, August 4, 2008
DOE launches carbon sequestration project
Wyoming Business Report, July 21, 2008
Ed Stelmach: Alberta is taking action on climate change
National Post (Canada), July 18, 2008
Liability issue raised over carbon capture
Calgary Herald, July 17, 2008
Early trials prove positive for CO2 capture and storage
The Australian, July 16, 2008
Ground rules for lower emissions
Houston Chronicle, July 15, 2008
Scientists Map Out "Dream Reservoir" for CO2 Storage
Wired, July 14, 2008
Dig Deep
The Economist, June 19, 2008
Mounting Costs Slow the Push for Clean Coal
New York Times, May 30, 2008
Seabed plan to capture carbon
The Australian, May 23, 2008
CO2 Capture Is `Important Solution' for Climate, Pachauri Says
Bloomberg, May 7, 2008
Southern California Edison Launches Nation's First Full Commercial Scale Assessment of Advanced Coal Generation
Business Wire, April 10, 2008
DOE may lower FutureGen requirement for capturing CO2
Environment and Energy Daily, April 10, 2008
New Focus on Coal's Part in Warming
The Washington Post, April 6, 2008
DOE monitors CO2 injection in Australian gas field
Oil & Gas Journal, April 4, 2008
Carbon Capture and Sequestration 101
Center for American Progress, March 31, 2008
Carbon Sequestration: Injecting Realities
Energy Tribune, March 19, 2008
Europe’s Ambitious Carbon Sequestration Plans
Energy Tribune, March 18, 2008
Company may turn carbon into gold
San Antonio Express-News, Feb. 28, 2008
Coal plant to test capturing carbon dioxide
USA Today, February 27, 2008
More answers—and questions—about carbon storage
Geotimes, February 2008
A ‘Bold’ Step to Capture an Elusive Gas Falters
New York Times, February 3, 2008
A look at the basics of carbon sequestration
Bismarck Tribune, January 22, 2008
Will nations build on climate-change momentum of 2007?
Christian Science Monitor, January 8, 2008
2007
Tech could reduce coal facilities' emissions
USA Today, December 27, 2007
A new treaty, or more hot air?
The Boston Globe, December 19, 2007
New Type of Coal Plant Moves Ahead, Haltingly
The New York Times, December 18, 2007
Capture carbon, but then what? (Editorial)
The Boston Globe, Dec. 2, 2007
UT Gets Grant to Test Carbon Dioxide Storage
Austin American-Statesman, October 26, 2007
Bureau Receives $38 Million for First Large-Scale U.S. Test Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground
JSG Online, October 24, 2007
Can the World Bury Carbon Dioxide?
Christian Science Monitor, July 31, 2007
Going Underground for a Greenhouse Gas Solution
Houston Chronicle, June 9, 2007
Report Backs More Projects to Sequester CO2 From Coal
Science Magazine, March 16, 2007
Biggest carbon-burial test will hunt for leaks
NewScientist, February 16, 2007
Branson Launches $25m Climate Bid
BBC News, February 9, 2007
Doubt Cast on ‘Carbon Capture’ Technology
Financial Times, January 16, 2007
2006
Burying Greenhouse Gas
Science Central, November 20, 2006
Scientists Deepen Confidence in Technique to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
JSG Online, November 15, 2006
Geologists Take Next Step Testing Subsurface Containment of Greenhouse Gases
JSG Online, September 22, 2006
BP Warning on "Clean" Power Plant
BBC News, August 25, 2006
Sea-Bed Plan to Store Carbon Dioxide
BBC News, August 7, 2006
Teesside Bids for Carbon Station
BBC News, March 24, 2006
Buried at Sea: Shell's Plan for Greenhouse Gases
Guardian, March 6, 2006
Rocks 'Could Store All Europe's CO2'
BBC News, February 16, 2006
Experiment seeks answers on burying
carbon dioxide deep underground
UT Austin Office of the VP for Research, January 16, 2006
For more information, contact J.B. Bird, Jackson School of Geosciences,
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