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On Friday, July 16, 2010, the U.S. Government Accountability Office
issued a report entitled “Coal Plants:Â
Opportunities Exist for DOE to Provide Better Information on the
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GAO Issues Report Concluding that Coal Plants Need Better Technology and DOE Needs Better Data to Reduce CO2 Emissions
On Friday, July 16, 2010, the U.S. Government Accountability Office
issued a report entitled “Coal Plants:Â
Opportunities Exist for DOE to Provide Better Information on the
Maturity of Key Technologies to Reduce Carbon Dioxide
Emissions.” The Report concluded that commercial deployment
of the carbon capture and storage technologies is
possible within 10 to 15 years [...]
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government from actually finishing a clean coal project. Last week,
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didn't have much to do with technology.
