Plan for Carbon Storage Dropped
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The Energy Department said yesterday that it would ask for new proposals from companies seeking federal aid for capturing and storing carbon dioxide released by coal-fired power plants, officially shelving the FutureGen Alliance project that the Bush administration had supported for five years.
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The European Commission has reportedly dropped its proposals to close depleted cod grounds in the North Sea, Irish Sea and the west of Scotland.
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New museum head says lower population would cut CO2 at a fraction of renewable energy cost.
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Plans for a Â£50m power plant run on renewable sources such cooking oil from McDonald's are shelved.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 6--DURHAM -- The county commissioners scrapped a plan Monday that would have re-designated 224 acres in eastern Durham for industrial use.
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Europe reportedly drops demand for 25-40% carbon cuts by 2020, which the US opposed
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By H. JOSEF HEBERT  WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday he has scrapped a proposal that critics said would protect fewer rare plants and animals from extinction.
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The BBC has dropped plans to hold a day of programming highlighting the threat from climate change, it said Thursday, in a move which has drawn sharp criticism from environmental groups.
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The nationâs leading effort to build a coal-fired electric plant that will capture and store its carbon emissions will take a shaky step forward on Tuesday.
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OSLO Ford Motor on Thursday backed down from its plans to destroy some 300 electric cars in the United States and Europe following protests from the Norwegian government and Greenpeace.
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By CAMERON SIMPSON  THE company planning to build the UK's largest wind farm on the Isle of Lewis, yesterday revised its plans by cutting the proposed number of turbines from 234 to 181.
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Antarctica's Southern Ocean carbon "sink" is soaking up less CO2 than it was expected to.
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Carbon dixoide storage -- rather than grapes and vintages -- was on the agenda at a wine-makers conference in Barcelona Saturday, as vintners mulled ways to reduce the industry's greenhouse gas emissions.
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The risk a power cut is posing to exotic species at Birmingham's National Sea Life centre has receded, say managers.
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Â· BA pledge to make scheme easier for passengers  Â· Debate goes on over value of climate change plan
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A Treasury-backed plan to stabilize a vital segment of the credit markets has been shelved, the banks involved said yesterday.
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By DAVID STRINGER LONDON - The United States is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at a Group of Eight summit next month, dashing German and British hopes for a new global pact on carbon emissions, according to a document released by environmentalists.