carbon capture and coal

A controversial project to scrub and store carbon dioxide from a coal-fired power plant in Illinois gets $1 billion from the federal government.

Big coal's last best hope, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), which is the missing puzzle piece required to create a truly 'clean coal' energy plant, is dead. The death of CCS, which has not been greatly exaggerated (see here, and here), hasn't prevented the Obama Administration from...