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It looks like what keeps your hair silky and shinny can actually help remove up to 90% of the carbon dioxide from the gasses produced by coal power plants. This comes according to a new study by General Electric Global Research. By applying this to a large scale, we could dramatically reduce harmful greenhouse gasses.

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Risk of EPA move smoothes way for U.S carbon law

By Scott Malone

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - The threat of tougher regulation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should ease industrial opposition to a cap-and-trade market on greenhouse gases, a U.S. lawmaker said on Monday.

U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, co-sponsor of a bill that would cut the nation’s emissions of greenhouse gases associated with global climate change, said the EPA’s authority to act should convince industrial lobbyists that it is in their best interest to work with Congress on the issue.

“Now you have a choice … Do you want the EPA to make the decision or would you like your congressman or senator to be in the room and drafting legislation? So we think this is a very helpful development that focuses the mind,” Markey said at a meeting on clean energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, just outside Boston.

Markey, who serves as chair of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, and Rep. Henry Waxman, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, in March introduced a bill that would cut U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas linked to climate change, by 20 percent through 2020.

The Waxman-Markey bill would achieve that end through a “cap-and-trade” system, which would limit the amount of carbon dioxide any given power plant or industrial user could emit. Those who cut their emissions below their allotment could sell their unused credits.

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