The Case for Carbon Capture Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) has been identified as crucial in the efforts to reign in CO2 emissions that are causing climate change by leading agencies such as the UN IPCC, the International Energy Agency and the World Bank. But CCS, the process of physically capturing CO2 emissions from industrial … Continue reading The Case for Carbon Capture #CCS
Kansas enacts oversight law for EPA CO2 plan Washington, 1 June (Argus) — Kansas governor Sam Brownback (R) signed a bill setting parameters for how the state complies with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Clean Power Plan. The bill, HB 2233, requires state agencies responsible for drafting a state implementation plan (SIP) to … Continue reading Kansas enacts oversight law for EPA CO2 plan
FERC Advances Reliability Safety Mechanism In Final Clean Power Plan On May 15, 2015, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) provided the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a letter signed by all five Commissioners that details its role in implementing a Reliability Safety Valve (RSV) in the proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP). The CPP proposal, … Continue reading FERC Advances Reliability Safety Mechanism In Final Clean Power Plan
Statoil Wants to Pay for CO2 Emissions Six of Europe’s oil and gas companies, including Norwegian giant Statoil, will pay for CO2 emissions and ask the world’s politicians and the UN to determine a price. In a joint press release which NRK published, senior managers at Statoil, BG Group, BP, Shell, Total and ENI ask … Continue reading Statoil Wants to Pay for CO2 Emissions
What Causes Global Warming? Droughts, lengthy hot spells, heavy downpours, floods, and other extreme weather events are occurring more frequently and intensely every year. Around the world, research teams are analyzing these trends, noting the changes in temperature, rainfall, ice mass, sea level, and many other variables recorded by weather measuring devices. The trends are … Continue reading What Causes #Global_Warming?
Big Question About Industry’s Newest Climate EffortEurope’s largest oil companies are reportedly working together on a policy strategy leading up to this year’s international climate talks in Paris. It’s nice to hear that some of the biggest players in the global oil and gas industry want to engage in solutions, but it remains to be … Continue reading Big Question About Industry’s Newest #Climate Effort
Climate benefits of a natural gas bridge ‘unlikely to be significant’ Natural gas can only be a worthwhile bridge to a low carbon future if a series of tough conditions are met, according to a working paper from the influential New Climate Economy initiative. The paper says the climate benefits of gas, including shale gas, … Continue reading Climate benefits of a natural gas bridge ‘unlikely to be significant’
Report: EPA may weaken its carbon rules for new power plants The EPA’s proposed carbon rules for new power plants would effectively prohibit new coal-fired power plants in the United States for the foreseeable future. As written in the draft proposal, the rules — the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for carbon dioxide — would … Continue reading Report: EPA may weaken its carbon rules for new power plants
Global schemes to price CO2 emissions worth almost $50 billion: World Bank BARCELONA: The value of global schemes to put a price on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and designed to reduce greenhouse gases blamed for global warming totalled almost $50 billion as of April 1, the World Bank said in a report on Tuesday. The … Continue reading Global schemes to price CO2 emissions worth almost $50 billion: World Bank
Sources: EPA Ditches Mandate That Coal Plants Install Non-Existent Coal Technology The EPA may be trying to avoid a political disaster before the rollout of major regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants. Sources say the agency has dropped a key requirement that coal plants install carbon capture technology. Sources familiar with the matter … Continue reading Sources: EPA Ditches Mandate That Coal Plants Install Non-Existent Coal Technology
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