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May 13, 2010
Has CCS become the "Holy Grail" of carbon-reduction strategies?

The new Senate energy bill from John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman includes incentives of $2 billion per year for carbon capture and sequestration. A recent op-ed in the New York Times asks why carbon capture and sequestration has become the "Holy Grail" of carbon-reduction strategies. What about cost and scale? Read the op-ed by Robert Bryce of the Manhattan Institute: "A Bad Bet on Carbon"