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February 3, 2012
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage
Navajo teams up with lab on tribal energy policy CBS News – February 2 One of the country's largest American Indian tribes has partnered with a national laboratory to study what technologies would be best for developing natural resources on the vast reservation.
Clean Air Task Force's Schneider discusses latest delay on NSPS Environment & Energy Publishing – February 2 There is no mathematical way that you can get an 80 percent reduction in power sector CO2 without having every fossil fuel plant in 2050 have carbon capture and sequestration. If we want that to happen by 2050, we need to begin now to have this technology fully commercialized and deployed.
Foster Wheeler to lead Don Valley CCS project Carbon Capture Journal – February 3 2Co Power has appointed Foster Wheeler Energy Limited (FWEL) to lead its CCS power plant development at the Don Valley Power Project in the UK.
Climate Change
Britain names Ed Davey as Energy and Climate Change Secretary ... Washington Post – February 3 British Prime Minister David Cameron’s office says Liberal Democrat lawmaker Ed Davey has been appointed as Energy and Climate Change Secretary after his predecessor quit.
Chris Huhne: most greens 'think he has done well' The Guardian – February 3 "Most greens think he has done well," said Baroness Bryony Worthington, a labour peer and environmental campaigner. "He has held his own in the battles against the Treasury, secured funding for renewable heat and the green investment bank, and he has been very approachable, which is a good thing in a cabinet minister."
Committee Leaders Ask OMB to Withdraw EPA's Pending Greenhouse Gas ... RenewablesBiz – February 2 Committee leaders today expressed concern that President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to impose a back door energy tax though its proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, despite the rejection of cap-and-trade legislation by both Congress and the American people.

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