WEST COAST US SCIENTISTS EMBARK ON MAJOR CCS RESEARCH PROJECT
February 2nd, 2011
BY PACIFICA GODDARD
THE USA Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) hope of regulating greenhouse gas emissions is putting a damper on investment in new coal plants in the United States. However there is some hope that coal could become clean enough to cohabit with future American emissions rules through carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology and tests are now underway in America to demonstrate its effectiveness. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), operated by the Battelle Memorial Institute, is gearing up to do just that in a basalt ...
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