The coal industry says it can trap its global warming gases and put them back in the ground where they came from – a process called carbon capture and storage. But the federal government just pulled the plug on the biggest carbon capture project, Futuregen. Living on Earth’s Jeff Young reports on the big questions about carbon capture and coal’s future.
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