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Coal country incensed at what it sees as Obama’s overreach on coal regulations

Environment

The people who live in the communities that produces America’s coal are mobilized to get President Barack Obama out of office. They see his policies and his EPA as implementing new regulations that are directly costing their communities jobs.

Proposed EPA regulation will make it difficult for new coal power plants to be approved

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The Price of Colombian Coal

Development & Education

Obama’s climate change pledge

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Energy Co-generation

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Carbon Capture

A coal-fired power plant in West Virginia is the site of the first carbon capture and storage project at an existing U.S. plant. The technology is expensive and untested but some say if it can be economically developed, it’s a necessary part of the energy

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Coal’s Carbon Capture in Question

Energy experts say the coal industry’s future could rest on the ability to capture carbon from coal-fired power plants, reducing the fuel’s greenhouse gases. But the Government just pulled the plug on the leading carbon capture project, raising serious do

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U.S. Coal Losing its Glow?

Dozens of coal projects across America have been scrapped as investors fret over the cost of controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Clean Coal Tell-All

Environment

In an exclusive interview, Scientific American’s energy and environmental editor David Biello sits down with The Takeaway to chat about the technology formally known as “carbon capture and sequestration” (“CCS”), carbon balloons, and carbon geysers.