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Europe’s untamed carbon

Funding and politics hobble CCS technology, seen as the best hope for cleaning up coal.

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Van Noorden, R. Europe’s untamed carbon. Nature 493, 141–142 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/493141a

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