{"id":3217,"date":"2023-05-20T07:17:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T05:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2023-05-20T07:17:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T05:17:45","slug":"epas-crackdown-on-power-plant-emissions-is-a-big-first-step-but-without-strict-certification-it-will-be-difficult-to-ensure-that-captured-carbon-stays-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/20\/epas-crackdown-on-power-plant-emissions-is-a-big-first-step-but-without-strict-certification-it-will-be-difficult-to-ensure-that-captured-carbon-stays-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"The EPA&#039;s crackdown on emissions from power plants is a big first step \u2014 but without strict certification, it will be difficult to ensure that the captured carbon stays in place."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>US government\u00a0<\/span><span>plans to take action<\/span><span> against the greenhouse gas emissions of power plants, and as a result, a lot of money is going to be poured into technology that can capture carbon dioxide from chimneys and lock it away.\u00a0<\/span><span>This raises an important question: Once carbon dioxide is captured and stored, how do we ensure it stays? <\/span><span>Power plants that burn fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas emit a lot of carbon dioxide. As CO\u2082 accumulates in the atmosphere, it traps heat near the Earth&#039;s surface,\u00a0<\/span><span>thereby causing global warming<\/span><span> .\u00a0<\/span><span>However, if CO\u2082 emissions can be captured instead and\u00a0<\/span><span>locking them away for thousands of years<\/span><span> , existing fossil fuel power plants could meet proposed new federal standards and reduce their impact on climate change. ( <em>Stephanie Arcusa, Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government is planning to crack down on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, and as a result, it\u2019s pouring a lot of money into technology that can capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks and lock it away. That raises an important question: Once carbon dioxide is captured and stored, how do we make sure it stays there? Power plants that burn fossil fuels like coal and natural gas release [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena","category-znizovanie_co2_cdr_ccs_ccu_dac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}