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Federal Efforts to Reduce the Cost of Capturing and Storing Carbon Dioxide

Categories: Climate Change,Energy,Environment,Science/Technology,Taxes

http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/43357-06-28CarbonCapture.pdf

Discusses the need for reducing carbon emissions from coal fired power plants, the cost of developing technology to cool and store the carbon dioxide in liquid form, and how federal policy options could encourage power companies to develop such technologies by leveling the costs of CCS-equipped plants From the Congressional Budget Office