Congress should implement greater oversight of the U.S. Energy Dept.'s carbon capture storage program and seek better accountability, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a Dec. 20 report. That assessment comes after several failed attempts to demonstrate funded carbon capture and storage technologies with the potential to mitigate global climate change.
DOE spent about $1.1 billion since 2009 to demonstrate 11 large-scale projects at coal-fired power plants and industrial facilities meant to accelerate the commercial deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS). The demonstrations ended with just three of 11 projects being built, GAO said.