Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory claim that large-scale underground storage is safer than previously thought.

It could be the answer to global warming -- but researchers at Duke University say captured carbon could also leak into groundwater aquifers, rendering water undrinkable.

With a formal commitment for $1 billion from the DOE announced this week, FutureGen might just make it off the ground.

Does clean coal exist?  We might soon have the chance to find out now that the U.S. Department of Energy's FutureGen clean coal plant project has been revived. FutureGen's future appeared grim last year when the Bush administration killed the project, but Obama is bringing it back to life with one billion dollars from the stimulus package.