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DOE to provide ~$1B in cost-shared funding to FutureGen; oxy-combustion of coal with carbon capture and storage

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Oxy-combustion is the combustion of coal with a mixture of manufactured oxygen and recycled flue gas (instead of air), resulting in a gas by-product that is primarily CO 2. The DOE-funded demonstration period will last for 56 months from the start of operations (approximately 2017) through 2022. For the FutureGen 2.0

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BOEM releases for comment draft EIS on G&G survey activities to develop energy resources in Mid- and South Atlantic

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The PEIS describes and evaluates the potential environmental impacts of G&G survey activities in Federal waters of the Mid- and South Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and adjacent State waters for three program areas (oil and gas, renewable energy, and marine minerals) during the 2012-2020 time period. Savannah, Ga.;

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