Intriguing proposition - Can This Coal Plant save the Climate? Kemper County Energy Facility East-Central Mississippi quote: The plant in east-central Mississippi was repeatedly invoked by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to justify sweeping new climate change rules. When it comes online later this year, Kemper will be the first power plant in the US capable of capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions. The EPA says the Kemper County Energy Facility offers a real-life example that it is possible to go on burning the dirtiest of fossil fuels and still make the cuts in carbon dioxide emissions needed to avoid a climate catastrophe. But with staggering costs—$5 billion and rising—and pushback from industry and environmental groups who say carbon capture is an unproven technology, now even the company that built Kemper is having second thoughts about the future of clean coal. unquote motherjones/environment/2014/03/carbon-capture-coal-plant-EPA-mississippi
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 04:08:34 +0000
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