Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Coal is supposed to be “phased down” except where the resulting carbon dioxide is removed and securely stored (which may or may not actually be feasible). Transportation. Also significant is the attention to the transportation sector. Non-CO2 greenhouse gases.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 19, 2022

Air transport facilitates international trade and tourism and contributes to economic growth and job creation, but it also produces carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to global warming. Read the full story from OECD.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

Assessments by the IPCC have made clear that the most feasible way for the world to meet its target of restricting climate change to below two degrees Celsius of warming includes rapid and massive expansion of carbon removal technology – technology that would extract carbon dioxide and permanently sequester that carbon dioxide underground.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 31, 2022

million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, according to an estimate from the Association of German Transport Companies. A German initiative slashing summer train fares drove widespread use of public transit, helping avoid 1.8 Read more on E360 ?.

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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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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Air Company, a carbon technology company that creates carbon-negative alcohols and fuels from Carbon Dioxide (CO2), has launched its Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) made from captured CO2. The post Air Company Launches Sustainable Aviation Fuel Made from Captured CO2 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

million in 2022 Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant funding to help municipalities, schools, and businesses around the state switch to clean transportation and improve air quality in their communities. A growing number of organizations and businesses in Pennsylvania want to lower their transportation emissions.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Navigator CO2 Ventures proposed to build a 2,000 kilometre pipeline to transport carbon dioxide from ethanol plants to be stored underground in southern Illinois.

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Carbon Dioxide 121

Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Air Company, a carbon technology company that creates carbon-negative alcohols and fuels from Carbon Dioxide (CO2), has launched its Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) made from captured CO2. The post Air Company Launches Sustainable Aviation Fuel Made from Captured CO2 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

million in Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants to municipalities and businesses for 99 electric vehicles and more clean fuel transportation projects to improve air quality in their communities. Transportation is one of the biggest sources of air pollution in Pennsylvania.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

With cities moving to make streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians and the rethinking of commutes and transportation post-pandemic, more people than ever are interested in electric bikes. For moving one person around a city, an electric bike can be far cheaper than a car, with more flexibility than most public transportation.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 14, 2024

They are proposing a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in northeast Alberta. The project will capture carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from 13 oil sands facilities in the Fort McMurray, Christina Lake, and Cold Lake regions and transport the CO 2 to the Cold Lake area where it will be injected underground (just south of St.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 25, 2024

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 News Bits

OCTOBER 6, 2022

by John DeCicco, University of Michigan Replacing petroleum fuels with electricity is crucial for curbing climate change because it cuts carbon dioxide emissions from transportation – the largest source of U.S. global warming emissions and a growing source worldwide.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 8, 2021

The report also identifies the wide variety of ways by which the captured carbon dioxide can be converted into a product of commercial value, also known as carbon utilization. Next Steps. CEQ will establish an interagency working group to develop guidance based on the report and establish no fewer than two regional task forces.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 23, 2022

North Dakota is a promising area for carbon dioxide injection. For example, there are projects in place and envisioned that would transport carbon dioxide from other areas of the country to North Dakota to be injected into pore space for carbon sequestration.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 23, 2023

Up to 50,000 tons of carbon dioxide yearly could be saved by replacing 1,000 existing diesel trucks with their electric counterparts.

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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 But some optimism remains.

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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. By Department of Conservation & Natural Resources Efforts to slow or stop global warming involve many strategies working together.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 21, 2023

A second company has formally asked state regulators for permission to move ahead with constructing a pipeline capable of transporting for permanent storage in Illinois the carbon dioxide captured from ethanol production. Wolf Carbon Solutions, the Canadian energy infrastructure entity with U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

The scoping plan implicitly makes it clear that the era of oil is ending, and California is embarking on a profound transformation of the state’s transportation system, from one built on oil and gasoline to one powered primarily by renewable electricity. The extraction, refining and use of petroleum has shaped California for almost 150 years.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2023

This primacy effort is an accelerant to the burden shouldered by Pennsylvanians of a deficient permitting system that favors polluters over community health and safety. North Dakota and Wyoming are the only states that have primacy over the Class VI program.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The US goal to cut carbon dioxide hinges on transporting and burying more than a billion tons per year. Read the full story from Bloomberg.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Staff with the Illinois Commerce Commission are recommending denial of a construction permit for the Wolf Carbon Solutions Mt. As envisioned, the pipeline would transport liquefied carbon dioxide captured from two ADM ethanol plants in Iowa to a permanent underground sequestration site in Decatur. Simon Hub CO2 pipeline.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Public discussions about transportation electrification often center on cars, trucks, and buses. Little attention tends to go toward electrifying cargo and tanker ships, which account for about 3% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Read the full story at Centered.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

Since then, it has captured less than half of the carbon dioxide it is supposed to. Photo by Sask Power via Flickr Creative Commons Playing Pretend with the Planet Building out carbon capture on a large scale would require a huge network of dangerous pipelines to transport the carbon to storage sites.

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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. Its primary component is methane. Then there’s water contamination.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

From Net Zero Teesside in the United Kingdom to Houston’s Carbon Capture Hub, a new generation of carbon campuses — where carbon dioxide emissions are captured, used in products and stored underground — is coming online.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

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. Dave Luebke, technical director of the Direct Air Capture Center at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2022

PEC Convenes Meeting On Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage -- Chesapeake Bay Journal: As Federal Support Emerges, PA Wants To Be A Carbon Capture Hub -- Wolf Administration Joins 6 States In Commitment To Develop Regional Carbon Dioxide Transport Infrastructure Plan To Promote Carbon Capture -- Senate Environmental Committee Hears About Using Carbon (..)

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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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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Carbon Capture and Storage Oil and gas companies like to paint a picture of a future where we can still have oil and gas production, but where oil wells, power plants and oil refineries can capture carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from smokestacks and bury them deep in the ground. Sounds good, but does it work?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The process of mining, transporting, and burning coal wreaks havoc on the environment, the climate and human health. When burnt, that amount of coal would produce 40 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, or the equivalent of 8.7 million cars.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

We feel that natural gas and derivative products provide a path for the transportation industry both to reduce carbon emissions in the short-term while working toward a goal of net-zero in the long-term as hydrogen and other potential solutions mature," said Christina Cassotis, CEO, Pittsburgh International Airport.

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