Carbon Capture and Storage

New regulations based on US Clean Air Act welcomed by green groups but strongly criticised by coal industry

Plans for a full-scale plant next to Mongstad test centre have been halted but government reaffirms intent to develop CCS elsewhere

Organisations asked to submit proposals for technologies that can cut the cost of trapping emissions from gas-fired power stations

Crown Estate and the British Geological Survey beef up CO2 Stored initiative with new information on CO2 storage capacity

"The continued use of gas is perfectly consistent with our carbon budgets over the next couple of decades"

Test drilling finds undersea site could hold 200 million tonnes of CO2 from a cluster of Humberside industries

Countries agree to tackle coal-fired power stations and heavy-duty vehicles under new bi-lateral accord

Thirty three clean energy projects apply for next round of EU funding, but only one CCS project is in the mix

Macquarie Generation signs deal with Algae.Tec to use waste CO2 from Bayswater plant to grow algae for transport fuel

Reports suggest EPA has already submitted first set of draft power plant emission regulations