Federal grants add momentum to Wyo carbon capture movement
Basin Electric Cooperative’s Dry Fork Station, shown here last summer, is the newest coal-fired power plant in the nation. Wyoming’s Integrated Test Center is attached to the plant, where researchers hope to come up with uses for carbon emissions. (Andrew Graham, WyoFile)
The United States Department of Energy last Friday announced $99 million in grants to study technology that removes carbon from industrial exhaust and uses it for other purposes, like manufacturing. More than half that money went to Wyoming’s Integrated Test Center, a facility based out of the Dry Fork Power Station in Gillette.
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A POSSIBILITY FOR BIPARTISANSHIP? Energy Secretary
Jennifer Granholm is touting major spending on carbon capture as key to finding agreement with Republicans on infrastructure.
Granholm, taking questions at a roundtable event yesterday, suggested she was unfazed by
remarks by Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell that Republicans won t go above $600 billion on infrastructure and don t want to revisit the GOP tax cut bill to pay for it.
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The Paris Agreement, the international treaty on climate change, sets a goal of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC and directs signatory nations to set targets for reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve this goal. Achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement will require rapid, far-reaching, and unprecedented actions, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The development of carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) projects is one example of such actions and will be an important piece of the climate mitigation puzzle.
CCUS is a process by which carbon dioxide (CO