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• The White House Clear Skies Initiative to cut power plant emissions by 70 percent; cut sulfur dioxide emissions by 73 percent; cut nitrogen oxide emissions by 67 percent; cap emissions of mercury, cutting them by 69 percent; all completed in two phases, with one set of emission limits for 2010 and for the other for 2018.
  
  
• The White House Hydrogen Initiative, envisioning the transition to a hydrogen economy.
  
  
• The White House Climate Change Initiative for cutting our nation's greenhouse gas intensity by 18 percent over the next 10 years.
  
  The Global Climate Change Policy Book, which explains that the Climate Change Initiative includes proposals for improvements to the current voluntary emission reduction registration program under section 1605(b) of the 1992 Energy Policy Act; Transferable Credits for Emissions Reduction; and Responding with additional measures that may include a broad, market-based program as well as additional incentives and voluntary measures designed to accelerate technology development and deployment.
  
  
• The White House FutureGen project. A Feb. 27, 2003 announcement that the United States is sponsoring, with international and private-sector partners, a $1 billion, 10-year demonstration project to create the world’s first coal-based, zero-emissions electricity and hydrogen power plant. See also DOE's explanation of the FutureGen Project.
  
  
• Coal Gasification, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
  
  
• Gas Turbine Power Plants, DOE Office of Fossil Energy.
  
  
• Hydrogen Technical Information from the U.S. Department of Energy.
  
  
• Hydrogen News from the National Hydrogen Association.
  
  
• Carbon Sequestration, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy.
  
  
• Clean Coal Technologies Compendium, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy.
  
  
• Clean Coal Technologies explanation from the Center for Energy and Economic Development.
  
  
• Testimony of Department of Energy, Feb. 2004, FY 2005 Fossil Energy’s programs focus on supporting the President’s top initiatives for energy security, clean air, climate change, and coal research.
  
  
• The National Energy Technology Laboratory seeks to assure that U.S. fossil energy resources can meet increasing demand for affordable energy.
  
  
• DOE's Fossil Energy Program is a source for policy statements on fossil fuels.
  
  
• DOE's Biomass Program includes major programs for developing and improving technology for biomass power.
  
  
• DOE's Fossil Energy web page on Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells
  
  
• DOD's information page on Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells
  
  
• An interesting Smithsonian site explaining a variety of Fuel Cells other than the Direct Carbon Fuel Cell.
  
  
  
  
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