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Senate hearing spotlights technology-first strategy to cut global emissions
Summary
Sen. Mitt Romney and panelists emphasized a technology-focused approach — demonstrating and financing carbon-capture, advanced nuclear and long-duration storage — as the most realistic path to lower global emissions, especially in rapidly developing countries.
Sen. Mitt Romney opened the hearing by warning that ‘‘our failure to act to prevent the warming of the planet’’ will define this generation and urged solutions that can be adopted worldwide.
Panelists told the committee that near-term, specific technology demonstrations and realistic financing are the clearest path to reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions. Rich Powell said the United States already operates a mature carbon-capture sector, ‘‘We already capture and safely sequester or use for enhanced oil recovery literally millions of tons of…
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