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Unraveling LA’s Hydrogen Combustion Experiment

Legal Planet

Green hydrogen––produced with renewable electricity and water­­––is often described as a tool for decarbonizing the challenging last 10% of greenhouse gas emissions. Natural gas plants retrofitted to blend hydrogen, supporters insist, can cheaply and reliably fill this need with infrastructure that already exists.

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Circle of Blue - Untitled Article

Circle of Blue

Hydropower generation across California and the American West has declined in this extremely dry year, meaning that electricity providers will lean more heavily on natural gas, solar, and wind power. In recent years, systems began capturing energy from that biogas and using it to produce electricity or natural gas.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. Sierra Club v.

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A Global Biogas Revolution Is Taking Place

Edouard Stenger

While solar PV and wind power are grabbing headlines, another clean energy revolution is silently taking place. Anaerobic digestion is a biological process happening naturally that breaks down organic matter in an airless environment, resulting in the generation of methane and carbon dioxide (among other things, see below).

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Dutch Elections: Energy and Climate Considerations

Energy and Climate Law

Another topic is carbon capture and storage (CCS), which could take place at the large gas- and coal-fired powerplants as well as at heavy industry sites such as the oil refineries near Rotterdam and the steel plant at IJmuiden. Carbon Dioxide could be stored offshore in depleted gas fields in the North Sea.

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Bay Journal: As Federal Support Emerges, PA Wants To Be A Carbon Capture Hub

PA Environment Daily

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal Pennsylvania is ideally suited to help the nation fight global warming by becoming a leader in the effort to capture and store emissions of carbon dioxide, state officials say. In the battle to slow global warming, carbon dioxide is the chief target. Studies by the U.S. from 1990–2019.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters. Circuit Vacated Approval for Natural Gas Pipeline in St. 20-472 (U.S. Louis area.

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