June 18, 2009
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Air & Climate Newsletter June 18, 2009 |
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New report released describing climate change impacts on the US
Two researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Evan Mills and Michael Wehner, contributed to the analysis of the effects of climate change on all regions of the United States, described in a major report released this week by the multi-agency U.S. Global Change Research Program. For the southwest region of the United States, which includes California, the report forecasts a hotter, drier climate with significant effects on the environment, agriculture and health. “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States” covers such effects ... |
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Obama puts flagship FutureGen project back on the agenda
In yet another turnaround, the Obama administration has moved to revive the high profile FutureGen carbon capture research programme, reversing a controversial Bush-era decision to axe the ambitious clean coal project. FutureGen was originally conceived as a 275MW research and development project that would demonstrate how to sequester carbon from coal, while also showing how hydrogen could be produced from the fossil fuel. The Department of Energy effectively canned the project in February last year, arguing that costs were skyrocketing. It cut funding to the FutureGen Alliance, which ... |
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