Clean Coal's Costs Put It On Life Support!

onMay 30, 2008 @ 07:27 PDT

How many windmills could we build for the cost of one clean coal plant?

Coal is abundant and cheap, assuring that it will continue to be used. But the failure to start building, testing, tweaking and perfecting carbon capture and storage means that developing the technology may come too late to make coal compatible with limiting global warming.“It’s a total mess,” said Daniel M. Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.

By Ross Gelbspan

uk/Nigel Farage Paid £27,000 to Speak at Pro-Trump U.S. Think Tank

ByPhoebe Cooke and Adam Barnett

onFeb 26, 2026 @ 09:33 PST

The Reform UK leader’s planned trip to Washington D.C. has prompted fresh consternation from campaigners.

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How Europe’s Climate and Sustainability Rules Were Shredded While Citizens Remained in the Dark

ByHugh Wheelan and Raj Thamotheram

onFeb 26, 2026 @ 03:53 PST

Policymakers, civil society, investors, business, and the media all must answer key questions fast — before the regulatory rollback turns into a rout.

Carney Allowed Gas-powered AI Data Centres After Lobbying From Alberta Energy Company

ByTaylor Noakes

onFeb 25, 2026 @ 07:03 PST

The Alberta gas giant Capital Power lobbied the government 37 times in the lead-up to an accord suspending clean energy regulations, federal records show.

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