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Chemistry World October 22, 2010 Akshat Rathi	UK carbon capture a one horse race On the same day UK ministers revealed a 1 billion fund for the development of carbon capture and storage, power company E.ON UK announced it is pulling out of the government's national CCS competition, leaving just one company in the race.
Chemistry World April 24, 2009 Nina Notman	UK carbon capture and storage gets government boost The UK will lead the way in the development and use of carbon capture and storage technology for coal-fired power stations, the country's minister for energy and climate change has declared.
Chemistry World April 4, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Dutch Power Ahead with Carbon Capture The first Dutch trial to capture carbon dioxide from a power plant's waste gas emissions has been launched in Rotterdam, Europe's largest port.
Chemistry World August 8, 2008	Funding Carbon Capture As the UK inches towards a 2014 large-scale demonstration of carbon capture and storage, scientists and MPs are urging for more incentives to get the costly technology commercial by 2020.
Chemistry World November 23, 2012 Nuala Moran	Can the UK fund CCS? After several false dawns, two recent announcements suggest commercial-scale carbon capture and storage could finally be getting the go-ahead in the UK.
Chemistry World September 28, 2015 Emma Stoye	Drax pulls out of carbon capture power station plans The owner of the UK's largest power station, Drax, has pulled out of plans to build a carbon capture and storage power plant because of changes in government policy.
Chemistry World April 4, 2006 Arthur Rogers	EU-Wide Carbon Capture Project A four-year carbon sequestration project backed by 30 European universities and energy companies will test the viability of CO 2 capture as a means of curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
Chemistry World November 10, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	BP quits carbon capture competition This leaves just three companies still bidding to build a government-backed CCS demonstration plant in the UK.
Chemistry World September 11, 2008 Hepeng Jia	China forging ahead with carbon capture China's first carbon capture trial is making money by selling its carbon dioxide to beverage companies to add fizz to their drinks, according to China Huaneng, the state owned energy firm that is running the trial.
IEEE Spectrum June 2010 Samuel K. Moore	The Water Cost of Carbon Capture Coal power's carbon savior could double its water woes
Chemistry World February 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Calls for UK Investment in Carbon Capture The UK government must invest immediately in carbon capture and storage technologies to meet carbon emissions targets, a parliamentary committee has urged.
Chemistry World September 27, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Norway abandons full-scale CCS project The Norwegian government is abandoning its project to build a full-scale carbon capture and storage facility at an oil refinery and gas-fired power plant in Mongstad.
Chemistry World June 29, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Stripping down the carbon storage problem Chemists looking at solid amine materials to capture carbon dioxide from industrial flue gases need to pay more attention to how they will be regenerated in a practical setting, say US researchers.
Chemistry World October 2007 Stuart Haszeldine	How to Bury the Problem Carbon capture and storage could allow us to burn fossil fuels without climate consequences - but only with more investment in R&D.
Chemistry World May 30, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Carbon capture and storage labelled 'farcical' Carbon capture and storage projects in the EU have been turned into a 'farce' by failures in funding programs and a lack of clarity about what they aim to achieve, according to a report from the ENGO Network.
Chemistry World October 9, 2014 Rebecca Trager	World's first carbon capture coal plant opens The world's first first large-scale power station equipped with carbon capture and storage technology officially opened in Canada and it's expected to trap around 1 million tons of carbon dioxide every year.
Chemistry World September 13, 2011 Hayley Birch	Carbon capture schemes pose low risk to people Any health risk associated with leaks from carbon capture and storage sites will be minor, according to a new study.
Chemistry World May 24, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	BP Pulls Out of Carbon Capture Plans Due to slow governmental support, BP has ditched plans to build the world's first carbon capture and storage power plant in Scotland.
Chemistry World October 21, 2015 Mark Peplow	The carbon capture challenge Attention is shifting toward carbon capture and utilization, which aims to use CO 2 as a feedstock to make fuels, chemicals and other useful products.
Chemistry World February 5, 2013 James Urquhart	Sea urchin inspires carbon capture catalyst UK scientists have taken inspiration from the sea urchin and shown how nickel nanoparticles could be a cheap and re-usable catalyst in a key step for capturing carbon dioxide produced by power plants and the chemical industry.
Chemistry World October 5, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Air, Can we Have Our Carbon Back? Sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is outlandishly expensive. But a US scientist who has just worked out how to improve its efficiency predicts it will be necessary before the end of the century.
Chemistry World September 15, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Oxyfuel carbon capture trial launched The world's first coal-fired power station to capture and store its own carbon dioxide emissions was launched on 9 September by Swedish power company Vattenfall in the north-eastern German city of Spremberg.
Chemistry World April 22, 2009 Matt Wilkinson	Darling budgets for high tech growth Alistair Darling, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, gave a speech which focused heavily on how he wants to produce a 'hi tech Britain that will lead our economic recovery'
Chemistry World April 20, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Putting the cement industry in the calcium loop Scientists in the UK have shown that two major industrial processes that generate large amounts of carbon dioxide could usefully be linked together to deliver significant savings in energy and CO 2 emissions.
Chemistry World November 11, 2010 Mike Brown	Europe to plough billions into green energy The world's largest program of investment in projects that demonstrate low carbon and renewable energy technology on a commercial scale has been launched by the European Commission, with a call for proposals from companies.
Chemistry World September 2, 2011 Tegan Thomas	Offsetting the Cost of a Green Solvent Scientists have conducted a study to show how waste carbon dioxide can become an exploitable resource.
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Prachi Patel-Predd	Carbon Capture Starts From Coal-Plant Advances in Lab Two research groups come up with super carbon-capturing materials.
Chemistry World September 2010 Tsouris et al.	Do we really need carbon capture and storage? The two sides of the CCS debate go head to head - should CCS be backed or sidelined?
Chemistry World December 6, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Atmospheric carbon capture costs underestimated Capturing carbon dioxide from the air to mitigate climate change is likely to be too expensive to be practical, a new study suggests.
Chemistry World October 21, 2009 Ned Stafford	Trillions for CCS to fight climate change Without carbon capture and storage, the International Energy Agency says that costs associated with cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 2005 levels by 2050 are likely to be 70 per cent higher.
Chemistry World September 9, 2014	Work starts on US carbon capture project The US Department of Energy has broken ground on a carbon capture and storage facility at a coal-fired power plant near Houston, Texas.
Popular Mechanics December 12, 2008 Melinda Wenner	U.N. Puts Greenhouse-Free Clean Coal on the Back Burner U.N. plans to sign a new international climate treaty next year, and in negotiating recommendations delegates found common ground in many areas.
Chemistry World July 18, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Membranes Weed Out Carbon Dioxide Chemical membranes that can capture the carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuels have been developed by scientists, who say that they are substantially more efficient than conventional membranes.
Fast Company March 2009 Melanie Warner	Clean Coal: It's Not a Misnomer, But is it the Answer? Advances in clean coal are promising but the industry and society shouldn't celebrate just yet.
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Adam Aston	China's Surprising Clout in Cleantech U.S. energy players are looking to the mainland for help.
Chemistry World December 1, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Magnesium Cage Shows Promise for Carbon Capture US chemists have shown that a hugely porous chemical cage containing large numbers of exposed magnesium centers can efficiently and selectively capture carbon dioxide from a mixture of gases and subsequently release it using little energy.
The Motley Fool September 10, 2008 Toby Shute	Look, Ma, No Emissions! Power producer Vattenfall AB has to be feeling pretty proud this week. The Swedish utility has turned out the world's first pilot plant to employ carbon capture and storage technology.
Chemistry World February 24, 2015 Phillip Broadwith	Catalytic carbon dioxide convertors The world's demand for energy, and the resultant carbon dioxide emissions, are drastically changing our climate. UK startup Econic Technologies is developing catalysts that could take some of that CO 2 and lock it up in high-performance polymer materials.
Chemistry World February 2007 Helen Pilcher	Living on Credits Carbon rationing isn't just a personal fancy. A growing band of UK politicians and scientists are touting it as the fairest and most practical way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
Chemistry World October 16, 2015 James Urquhart	Microporous copper silicate sucks up carbon dioxide A carbon capturing microporous copper silicate material has been created that could offer a cheaper and simpler way of capturing carbon dioxide from the gas flues of fossil fuel power plants.
Chemistry World October 9, 2012 Paul Fennell	Carbon capture Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon by Peter Cook, is an excellent introduction to many topics in the field of climate change, with a particular focus on carbon capture and storage technologies.
Chemistry World October 2007 Jeff Hardy	Mind the Gap The technology to plug the UK's energy gap is already here. But where is the political will?
Chemistry World October 12, 2009 Sarah Houlton	EC pushes renewables research The European Commission has called for a dramatic increase in investment in low carbon technologies to address climate change and secure the future energy supply.
Chemistry World March 8, 2011 Rebecca Trager	Site chosen for long-awaited US clean coal project The FutureGen Alliance - a consortium of international power companies responsible for designing, building and operating the site - announced on 28 February that Morgan County, Illinois, US will host the carbon dioxide (CO 2) storage site.
Chemistry World October 5, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Chemicals with an Amine Chemists in France have devised a new way to turn carbon dioxide into a useful chemical building block.
Chemistry World May 23, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	UK Government Reveals Energy Plans Scientists have cautiously welcomed the UK government's drive towards renewable energy and nuclear power.
Chemistry World January 16, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Azo-cops nab CO 2 but let N 2 go free Scientists have developed a new class of porous polymer that can efficiently trap carbon dioxide while actively rejecting nitrogen.
Chemistry World August 10, 2010 Rebecca Trager	Facelift for FutureGen project America's flagship clean coal project, FutureGen, will be revamped through $1 billion in economic stimulus funds pledged by the US Department of Energy on 5 August.
Chemistry World December 12, 2012 Yan Yan	China's emissions may peak as soon as 2025 New research suggests that China's carbon emissions could peak as soon as 2025. But not everyone is convinced by these projections.