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FRESH, October 4, 2022: Carbon Dioxide Storage and Transport Emerges as Political Flashpoint

Circle of Blue

Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. In central Illinois , residents are reluctant to make way for an underground carbon dioxide pipeline. Residents of central Illinois are organizing against a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline, Energy News Network reports. CO2 STORAGE: Indiana Gov.

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DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council Hosts 2-Part Online Discussion Of Storing Carbon Below Ground-- Sept. 21; And Above Ground-- Oct. 17

PA Environment Daily

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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New Amendment to Louisiana’s Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act Creates Expropriation Rights to Prohibit Drilling through Carbon Capture Storage Reservoirs in Caldwell Parish

The Energy Law Blog

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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Parts of the Amazon go from absorbing carbon dioxide to emitting it

Environmental News Bits

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 →

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The ocean may be storing more carbon than estimated in earlier studies

Environmental News Bits

The ocean’s capacity to store atmospheric carbon dioxide is some 20% greater than the estimates contained in the latest IPCC report. Scientists looked at the role played by plankton in the natural transport of carbon from surface waters down to the seabed. Read the full story from CNRS.

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Environmental Groups Challenge Louisiana’s Primacy Over Class VI Injection Wells

The Energy Law Blog

The environmental groups, represented by Earth Justice, believe that the state’s program ran by the Louisiana Department of Energy and Natural Resources (LDENR) is less stringent than the EPA’s program and hope to have permitting authority returned to the federal government.

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Coastal ecosystems are a net greenhouse gas sink, new research shows

Environmental News Bits

A new greenhouse gas budget shows coastal ecosystems globally are a net greenhouse gas sink for carbon dioxide (CO2) but emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) counteract some of the CO2 uptake, according to researchers. Read the full story from Southern Cross University.