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The report said around 100 large-scale carbon-capture and -storage projects were needed by 2020, and over 3,000 by 2050, from only five today, to meet global emissions goals.

IEA Says More Renewable Power Needed to Curb Emissions Angus McDowall 2011

From the WSJ: There's $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn't turned a profit in 40 years; $2 billion for child-care subsidies; $50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts; $400 million for global-warming research and another $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects.

Mother of Porkulus 2009

Much of this will be needed for big-ticket items like offshore wind farms, nuclear-power stations and coal and gas plants fitted with carbon-capture and -storage technology.

M&A Seen Surging Among Green-Technology Firms Katharina Bart 2011

While Upton has staunchly opposed cap-and-trade legislation, over the years he's partnered with Democrats on a number of bills that would help cut emissions-including one to spur the development of carbon-capture and storage technology for coal-fired power plants, another to improve lighting efficiency, and yet another to increase funding for a Department of Energy loan program to help automakers retool factories to create more efficient vehicles.

Pete Altman: Why Is Fred Upton Lending His Name To The Koch Brothers' War On EPA And Americans' Health? Pete Altman 2011

For example, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said measures to promote carbon capture and sequestration differ from conventional fossil subsidies because the carbon-capture measures promote new technology that would improve climate-mitigation efforts, even if they encourage more coal-fired electricity.

OECD, IEA Urge Cuts to Fuel Subsidies John M. Biers 2011

Scenes from a green economy: Last week German utility E. ON pulled out of the U. K.'s competition to develop a commercial-scale carbon-capture and storage facility.

Unsustainable Development 2010

RWE says it is now awaiting the final details of that program before proceeding with full-scale carbon-capture and storage in Europe.

Unsustainable Development 2010

The U. K.'s competition is meant to fast-forward that process and deliver commercial-scale carbon-capture and storage within a few years.

Unsustainable Development 2010

A spokesman for RWE's British unit noted that the company is, however, independently funding a small pilot project in Britain to test carbon-capture methods, using its own funds to figure out how to make the "capture" part of the equation cheaper and more efficient.

Unsustainable Development 2010

While Upton has staunchly opposed cap-and-trade legislation, over the years he's partnered with Democrats on a number of bills that would help cut emissions-including one to spur the development of carbon-capture and storage technology for coal-fired power plants, another to improve lighting efficiency, and yet another to increase funding for a Department of Energy loan program to help automakers retool factories to create more efficient vehicles.

Pete Altman: Why Is Fred Upton Lending His Name To The Koch Brothers' War On EPA And Americans' Health? Pete Altman 2011