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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This Innovation Roadmap presents an overview of the current status, innovation needs, and research efforts in Mission Innovation (MI) Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Mission member countries for three CDR approaches: direct air capture with storage, enhanced mineralization, and biomass with carbon removal and storage. The Roadmap was authored by members of the … Continue reading Carbon Dioxide Removal Technology Roadmap: Innovation Gaps and Landscape Analysis.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Trees are feasting on decades of carbon dioxide emissions and growing bigger as a result, according to a new study of U.S. forests. Read more on E360

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 10, 2021

from the Department of Energy (DOE) for a project leveraging technology that uses carbon dioxide (CO2)-rich gas, such as from corn grain ethanol refining, to make chemicals and fuels. A major benefit is that the CO2 is captured before… Read more → Carbon utilization Circular economyRead the full story at Waste360. Climate technology developer and commercializer LanzaTech has been awarded $4.1M

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Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 3, 2022

The abstract: In the late 1960s, New Zealand and the United States collaborated to establish a southern hemispheric carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring station on New Zealand’s coastal cliffs.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 7, 2022

Researchers have developed a new membrane technology that allows for more efficient removal of carbon dioxide from mixed gases, such as emissions from power plants. Carbon capture PublicationsRead the full story from North Carolina State University.

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Law Columbia

JULY 14, 2022

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be needed, alongside deep emissions cuts, to achieve global temperature goals. o C or 2 o c, in line with the Paris Agreement, global carbon dioxide emissions must reach net-zero between 2050 and the early 2070s. By Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. In central Illinois , residents are reluctant to make way for an underground carbon dioxide pipeline. If carbon emissions continue to rise until the middle of the century, this figure climbs to $2.2

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 11, 2022

Pumping carbon dioxide underground may help combat the warming of the atmosphere but finding appropriate underground sites that could safely serve as reservoirs can be complicated. To address this complexity, a Penn State-led research team combined an artificial intelligence technique with an understanding of physics to develop… Read more → Carbon capture PublicationsRead the full story from Penn State University.

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Physics World

AUGUST 1, 2021

Sprinkling powered basalt over natural ecosystems would remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere while also improving soils. billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, where roughly half was stored in the biomass.

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Inside Climate News

MAY 23, 2022

The study found that limiting warming in coming decades as well as longer term requires policies that focus not only on reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, but also of “short-lived climate pollutants”—greenhouse gases including methane and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)—along with black carbon, or soot.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 25, 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope has made the first clear detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant world, and there is also an unexpected bump in the data

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Scientific American

AUGUST 30, 2022

The result offers a sneak peek at the observatory’s transformative potential for studying worlds beyond the solar system. Space & Physics Planetary Science

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

In fact, in 1938 Sir George Simpson, a leading meteorologist, dismissed the link between rising carbon-dioxide (CO 2 ) concentration and temperature as “ rather a coincidence ”. Callendar’s 1938 paper “The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature” ( Q.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 29, 2022

a manufacturer and supplier of chillers for the industrial and beverage processing market, developed the idea of a CO2 chiller that brought big dividends to a California … Continue reading Carbon dioxide chiller provides ample cold for dairy and replaces propane heat for hot water. Read the full story at Food Engineering. With the approaching HFC phasedown, the demand for environmentally friendly cooling systems is driving chiller manufacturers to innovate.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Made from abundant elements and requiring no complex post-synthesis treatment or modifications, this promising photocatalyst could pave the way for a new class of … Continue reading Efficient carbon dioxide reduction under visible light with a novel, inexpensive catalyst. Carbon utilization Chemical manufacturing PublicationsRead the full story from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As world leaders and diplomats wrap up the climate negotiations in Scotland in the coming days they will be confronted by new data showing that global carbon dioxide emissions are expected to rise sharply this year, possibly tying the all-time high reached before the Covid-19 pandemic. Read the full story at Inside Climate News.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Two proposals for carbon pipelines throughout the Midwest would pipe carbon dioxide from dozens of ethanol plants to rock formations in North Dakota and Illinois where the CO2 would be buried deep underground. Rock formations like the Mount Simon Sandstone offer the ability to bury the carbon for “eons… Read more → Carbon managementRead the full story from KCUR.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 10, 2021

To get climate change under control, the scientists say humans must not only stop putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we also have to take the extraordinary step of actually removing CO2 that’s already there. … Read more → Carbon captureRead the full story at KNAU.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A more sustainable option gaining steam is the use of electrolyzers, devices that instead use electricity to convert raw materials like carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful molecules for chemicals and products. One… Read more → Carbon utilization Chemical manufacturing EnergyRead the full story from the University of Delaware. Traditional chemical manufacturing relies on non-renewable fossil energy sources for power and raw materials.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 19, 2022

Springfield is set to become the home of the world’s largest carbon capture research program at City Water Light and Power (CWLP). The $67 million project is in partnership with the University of Illinois, and researchers will work to prove that carbon dioxide released by CWLP can be captured,… Read more → Carbon utilization Illinois Prairie Research InstituteRead the full story from News Channel 20.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 18, 2021

Carbon dioxide emissions in Los Angeles and the Washington DC/Baltimore regions fell roughly 33 percent in April of 2020 compared with previous years, as roads emptied and economic activity slowed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study. Read the full story from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

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Inhabitant

JUNE 9, 2021

Reducing emissions is top priority for survival. Will we ever treat it as such

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Blue carbon refers to carbon dioxide that is absorbed from the atmosphere and stored in the ocean. The vast majority of blue carbon is carbon dioxide that has dissolved directly into the ocean. Carbon dioxide removal

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Carbon dioxide removal IllinoisRead the full story in the Illinois Times.

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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 first paper in the series discussed ocean alkalinity enhancement for carbon dioxide removal.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Spreading olivine on beaches could accelerate ocean uptake of carbon dioxide and potentially limit climate change. Carbon dioxide removal ClimateRead the full story at Eos. The concept and execution still face some scrutiny from scientists.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2022

According to the IPCC, to achieve net zero emissions, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be needed to “counter-balance hard to abate residual emissions” from sectors like agriculture, shipping, and aviation. By Romany M.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 2, 2021

Read the full story in the New York Times. A new study analyzing hundreds of aerial readings of emissions above the forest canopy found that forest regions in the southeast were most affected. Read more → Climate change Natural resources Publications

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

South Dakota Mines researchers study microbial acceleration of carbon mineralization with extremophiles found at SURF. Read more → Carbon captureRead the full story from the Stanford Underground Research Facility.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Scientists silenced CO2-sensing genes to determine how the destructive pests find their food. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Advances Biology Animals

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 3, 2022

In response to various pressures on the energy industry to reduce the environmental impact associated with excess carbon dioxide emissions, many energy companies are investigating carbon capture and sequestration projects as a means of reducing their carbon emissions.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 12, 2022

by Kevin Trenberth, University of Auckland When politicians talk about reaching “net zero” emissions, they’re often counting on trees or technology that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air. Carbon dioxide removal Climate

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 29, 2021

Four of the five largest industrial agricultural facilities that have released the most carbon emissions in the past decade belong to Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest food processing and commodity trading companies. Read the full story at the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 21, 2022

Are Iowa’s proposed carbon dioxide pipelines a legitimate piece in the climate solution puzzle, or just a windfall for agribusiness? Carbon dioxide removalRead the full story at FERN.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 19, 2022

Chemical engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago are investigating new methods to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from cement manufacturing. Cement is one of the most widely used building materials, but its production is responsible for up to 8% of global emissions from carbon dioxide, … Continue reading NSF, DOE grants fund UIC research to decarbonize cement manufacturing. Carbon dioxide removal Illinois Manufacturing Research

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 30, 2021

Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is one of several proposed techniques for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in the oceans. OAE seeks to counteract ocean acidification, while also increasing carbon storage in the oceans. By Romany M.

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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. That means the Solid Carbon technology could be used at sea anywhere.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Carbon dioxide removal Chemical manufacturing Food and beverage manufacturing Manufacturing Metal fabricating Publications

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 27, 2022

Booking a rental car online recently, I was asked to check a box to plant a tree to offset my car’s anticipated carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide removal Climate Maps

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 28, 2022

Farmers, tribes, and environmentalists have rallied against the potential use of eminent domain to build the Midwest Carbon Express. Carbon dioxide removalRead the full story at Grist.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 31, 2022

The Department of Energy’s new Carbon Matchmaker tool is an important resource to jumpstart the burgeoning carbon economy. The interactive map acts as a coordination tool, helping carbon dioxide capturers, users, removers and storers find each other. The map helps visualize the current supply chain for carbon across a region and allows … Continue reading Finding your match in the carbon economy. Read the full story at GreenBiz.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2021

By Jennifer Matthews, Penn State News A new, environmentally friendly, single-step process has been developed to convert carbon dioxide into higher hydrocarbons using plasma, according to scientists and engineers. We need to do something to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 26, 2022

Carbon dioxide removal Climate EuropeRead the full story at Waste Dive. Climate goals are inspiring European operators to explore new technologies for their emissions, yet the environmental and financial outcomes remain to be seen.

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