FutureGen’s Demise Shows Carbon Capture for Coal Faces Woes
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The U.S. government has pulled the plug on a project in Illinois to capture carbon, a significant setback for development of a technology that may be critical to the future of coal.
The Energy Department said Tuesday it’s pulling support for FutureGen Industrial Alliance Inc., a public-private partnership to build a coal plant that would store its carbon emissions deep underground instead of sending the gases skyward.