The US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) hope of regulating greenhouse gas emissions is putting a damper on investment in new coal plants in the US, writes Pacifica Goddard. However, there is some hope that coal could become clean enough to cohabit with future US emissions rules through carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology and tests are now underway to demonstrate its effectiveness. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), operated by the Battelle Memorial Institute, is gearing up to do just that in a basalt formation at the Boise White Paper Mill property in Wallula, Washington state, on the Pacific coast.
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机译：Pacifica Goddard写道，美国环境保护署（EPA）希望调节温室气体排放，这希望阻碍对美国新建燃煤电厂的投资。但是，人们有希望通过碳捕获和封存（CCS）技术使煤炭变得足够清洁，以适应美国未来的排放法规，并且正在进行测试以证明其有效性。由巴特尔纪念研究所（Battelle Memorial Institute）运营的太平洋西北国家实验室（PNNL）正准备在太平洋沿岸华盛顿州瓦卢拉（Wallula）的博伊西白皮书工厂（Boise White Paper Mill）的一个玄武岩地层中完成这一任务。
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