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North Dakota Coal-Fired Plant to Install CCS

The Minnkota Power Cooperative’s Milton R. Young station got a $6.0 MM grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to design a carbon capture model that would reduce the plant’s carbon emissions by 90 per cent. The project is one of seven funded by the Energy Department’s new $44.0 MM Design and Testing of Carbon…

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India Opens Coal Mining to Private Sector

India will end its 45-year state monopoly on commercial coal mining to encourage competition and raise productivity through private-sector investments. Under an auction system announced this week, the business that offers the highest sum per ton of coal to the state where a mine is located will win the mining rights. No restrictions will be…