Climate Rules Needed for Carbon Capture to Be Viable, U.S. Says

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Climate-change legislation to force reductions in greenhouse gases is a necessary ingredient to the widespread deployment of a process to store carbon pollution from coal plants, a U.S. task force said today in a report.

High costs, a lack of clear regulations and uncertainty about legal liability must be resolved for carbon capture to be widely deployed, according to the report released by 14 federal agencies.