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DOE Supports Clean Coal Sequestration Project
March 10, 2010 | USA Today

The Department of Energy is awarding a $154 million grant to NRG Energy, a company that will create a carbon capture and storage project at a 60-megawatt coal-burning power plant in Texas.


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