Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 21, 2023

An innovative and sustainable chemistry developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory for capturing carbon dioxide from air has been licensed to Holocene, a Knoxville-based startup focused on designing and building plants that remove carbon dioxide from atmospheric air.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Amazon is making its first investments in direct air capture technology as part of its climate pledge to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. Direct air capture (DAC) technologies extract carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere through chemical reactions.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. Large-scale solutions are urgently needed. Photo credit: Francisco Anzola, Flickr CC BY 2.0. By Dr Kate Moran.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It will require us to fundamentally alter the profile of our energy use and derive growth from fuels and technologies that emit less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and to adapt to the climatic changes that our actions are too late to prevent.” “Climate change also promises to impact the global economy.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Sabin Center today released the second in a series of white papers discussing legal issues associated with different ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques. the growing of kelp and other macroalgae which may be harvested for food, bioenergy, or other uses or sunk in the ocean to sequester the carbon it contains.

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Brag

JANUARY 24, 2023

With atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on the rise, “innovative research that finds ways to transform CO 2 in the atmosphere into something positive is more important than ever.” BETO notes that the long-term challenge of the research will be scaling up scientific findings into commercial applications.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 31, 2022

by Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University Two centuries of burning fossil fuels has put more carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere than nature can remove. There is so much CO2 in the atmosphere now that most scenarios… Read more →

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Dave Luebke, technical director of the Direct Air Capture Center at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh. Dr. Leubke will explain the basics of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and how both point-source CCS and direct air capture (DAC) can help the U.S. reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Alongside a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, substantial deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques might avert – or at least limit – overshoot of 1.5°C. At COP 28 this week the US and several partners launched a ‘Carbon Management Challenge’ with an aim to collectively store 1.2 Carbon management?

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 6, 2023

Read the full story from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Researchers are proposing a novel pathway through which coastal ecosystem restoration can permanently capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

But what happens when we achieve the goal of zero carbon dioxide emissions from human actions? It turns out this is a critical question for understanding what carbon budgets we have in terms of emissions, if we seek to meet temperature thresholds like 2 degrees Celsius. Some models show a potential for a rise of up to 0.3

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 3, 2024

They absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere without using expensive technology. The suggestion that you can plant trees to offset your carbon emissions is widespread. by James Weber, University of Reading and James A.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 31, 2023

billion for two pioneering facilities—one in Texas, the other in Louisiana—that will remove millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually from the atmosphere using a technology known as direct air capture (DAC). unveils plans for large facilities to capture carbon directly from air

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 6, 2021

Farmers have, for years, known about their theoretical ability to offset carbon emissions by managing their land in a way that captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stores it in the soil — a set of practices sometimes referred to as regenerative agriculture. But measuring the carbon… Read more →

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Leveraging the bioeconomy for carbon drawdown. link] [open access] Abstract Stringent climate change mitigation scenarios rely on large-scale drawdown of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Green Chemistry 25(8), 2930–2957.

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

On September 21, 2023, the Biden administration outlined plans to expand federal agencies’ consideration of the social cost of carbon—a metric for the economic cost of each additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere. The directive is, nonetheless, significant.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Carbon capture : a license to pollute Oil and gas companies like to paint a picture of a future where we can still have oil and gas production, but where power plants and oil refineries can capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks and bury them deep in the ground. They call this Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS).

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 23, 2024

California-based carbon removals specialist Captura has confirmed it has secured $21.5m in fresh funding to support the commercialisation of its ocean-based carbon capture technology, which promises to boost the ocean’s capacity to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 23, 2024

The ability to meet EU climate goals is enhanced by investing in new technologies that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Read the full story from Linköping University. Although it is currently unprofitable for both companies and countries to do so, there are solutions to make it financially viable.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Department of Energy (DOE) to support the development of four regional “direct air capture hubs” (DAC Hubs)—networks that connect direct air capture projects with sequestration facilities and commercial users of captured carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Why Do We Need CO 2 Pipelines?

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Atmosphere The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Read the full story from the National Energy Technology Laboratory. When NETL researchers began to research the potential to recover critical minerals from rocks that are processed to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide in a practice called mineral carbonation, they expected to find valuable commodities like chromium, cobalt, and nickel.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s new hydrogen production tax credit , known as code 45V, is intended to incentivize a shift to low-carbon hydrogen production by offering producers a credit that increases in value as the carbon emissions associated with produced hydrogen declines.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But the latest initiative by Google will be likely to attract praise, as it will be using technology to overcome a critical problem when it comes to cutting emissions: oil and gas methane leaks. Methane has 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 11, 2023

Meeting our net-zero goals will require the deployment of emissions reducing technologies and pathways for directly removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Read the full story from the Bipartisan Policy Center.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 3, 2023

The National Wildlife Federation and the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy at American University invite applicants for the inaugural cohort of the Carbon Removal Justice Fellows Program (“the Fellows Program”).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2023

DCNR's Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council will host a 2-part online CNRAC Conversation on Below and Above: Storing Carbon In The Pennsylvania Landscape. This webinar series explores opportunities to reduce carbon dioxide emissions through underground carbon storage and aboveground carbon sequestration.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One strategy is to counterbalance carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees. Reports from these studies and partnerships are found on the DCNR website.

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Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

The year 2023 stands as a testament to this synergy, with a plethora of companies innovating in the carbon removal terrain with a shared goal of fighting climate change. Meeting the recent pathways laid out by the IPCC will require total cumulative net carbon dioxide removals of 20–660 GtCO2 by 2100. Mulligan, J., Ellison, G.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

But while the scoping plan talks a lot about the low carbon technologies we need, it also should be clearer about the implications for the technologies we are leaving behind, so everyone can plan for what comes next. What is a petroleum phaseout plan and why does California need one?

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Carbon capture is a greenwashing tactic The new subsidy is for carbon capture projects. While the idea of capturing carbon pollution before it reaches the atmosphere sounds good, in reality, it doesn’t actually work. In the 1970s, oil companies were trying to figure out how to pump out the last third of oil from a well.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The need for technology that can capture, remove and repurpose carbon dioxide grows stronger with every CO2 molecule that reaches Earth’s atmosphere. Read the full story from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

Last week, MIT’s “Technology Review” reported that a small startup firm is proposing to spray reflective aerosols in the stratosphere commercially as a climate corrective. They say they have thus far launched two small weather balloons, which each released a few grams of sulfur dioxide gas (SO 2 ) in the stratosphere.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Scientists and entrepreneurs around the world are working on innovations to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and ease the gas’s impact on climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports. Any effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will undoubtedly rely heavily on reducing the presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Swiss company Climeworks has opened the world’s largest plant that will directly capture CO2 from the atmosphere. Climeworks says that Orca is the world’s first and largest climate-positive direct air carbon capture and storage plant. These units are powerful and compact, with a minimal physical footprint.

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