Associated Press: The Energy Department is awarding grants totaling nearly $1 billion to speed up the development of commercial-scale projects to capture carbon dioxide at three coal-burning power plants. The department said Friday that the money from the economic recovery program will generate $2.2 billion in private capital for the programs. The grants include $334 million to Ohio-based American Electric Power for carbon capture at its coal plant near New Haven, W.Va.; $295 million to …