clean coal Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 29 May 2017 04:32:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Thankfully President Trump Wants to Cut Clean Coal Funding https://www.greenoptimistic.com/trump-cut-clean-coal-funding-20170527/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/trump-cut-clean-coal-funding-20170527/#comments Mon, 29 May 2017 04:32:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=63703 The Trump Administration has been openly hostile to any kind of sustainable energy development. With the newly released federal budget it is now obvious that environmental concerns aren’t important at all to Trump&Co. In his first budget as President, Trump has decided to not only defund all sustainable development at a federal level, but also […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/trump-cut-clean-coal-funding-20170527/feed/ 1 63703 Obama’s Plan: Greening Up Coal Power Plants by Stimulating Oil Extraction https://www.greenoptimistic.com/obamas-plan-greening-coal-power-plants-stimulating-oil-extraction-20131223/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/obamas-plan-greening-coal-power-plants-stimulating-oil-extraction-20131223/#comments Mon, 23 Dec 2013 19:26:53 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=44705 Is it possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while encouraging investors to put their money on coal-fired power plants and oil? According to Barack Obama’s new strategy, the answer is yes, and this can only be achieved with new carbon capture technologies. The high price of these, however, did show that it was all too […]

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