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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Nanotech

MARCH 5, 2024

Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced on February 13, 2024, their intent to issue funding to support research and development (R&D) projects for converting algae and other wet waste feedstocks to low-carbon fuels, chemicals, and agricultural products.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

March 8, 2023, marked the start of the demonstration phase of Project Greensand , shipping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from Belgium for storage in a depleted oilfield in the North Sea off the coast of Denmark. on the Export of Carbon Dioxide Streams for Disposal in Sub-Seabed Geological Formations for the Purpose of Sequestration.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2024

beneficial use of coal ash waste permit for a project to construct a direct air capture of carbon dioxide facility at the Scrubgrass waste coal power plant located in Scrubgrass Township, Venango County. ( Read more here. A 60 day comment period is now open. Read the entire PA Bulletin notice for more information. (

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Physics World

JULY 5, 2022

Alternating magnetic fields can be used to rapidly convert medical waste, such as plastic syringes, into hydrogen-rich gases and high-quality graphite, scientists in China have found. This catalytic technique is more environmentally friendly and less energy intensive than other waste management strategies, the researchers claim.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 20, 2022

Climatetech company Mote is establishing its first facility to convert wood waste into hydrogen fuel while capturing, utilizing, and sequestering carbon dioxide emissions resulting from its process.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

They discovered that injecting high-pressure carbon dioxide into aging oil wells could extract more oil that otherwise they would have had to leave behind. In fact, most of the (small amount of) carbon dioxide being captured is used for EOR, i.e. MORE oil production. This is called enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 22, 2023

Carbon Down Under, a team of graduate students from the Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, is liquifying and burying carbon dioxide to fight climate change. Plants naturally absorb carbon dioxide – and it is still captured and stored within human-created waste of that plant material.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In a blog post last month, I wrote about the growing interest in ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR), and the complex legal issues it raises. At the time they were adopted, the primary focus was on preventing the discharge of waste materials into the ocean. The text of the Convention is somewhat broader, however.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 9, 2023

Running Tide, a carbon-removal company in the US, has sunk more than 10,000 tonnes of waste wood into the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere – but experts aren't convinced it will work

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Researchers engineered a strain of bacteria to break down carbon dioxide (CO2), converting it into commonly used, expensive industrial chemicals. The carbon-negative approach removes CO2 from the atmosphere and bypasses using fossil fuels to generate these chemicals. Read the full story from Northwestern University.

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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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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

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. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% volume mixing ratio) and oxygen (20.9%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

How do biomethane, lifecycle carbon accounting, and the tax credit interact? Biogas is the direct product of anaerobic digestion, primarily comprised of a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide, plus much smaller amounts of other gases.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

By Brodhead Watershed Association If you trash vegetable peels and apple cores, eggshells, grass clippings, and the like, you’re wasting a lot of perfectly good waste. You keep a smallish container on the counter in the kitchen, where those peelings and other kitchen waste go. Methane is 26 times more potent than carbon dioxide!

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

for air quality, waste, and oil and gas violations related to the uncontrolled gas release from Equitrans’ Rager Mountain natural gas storage field and George L Reade 1 storage well in November 2022. The impact of methane is over 25 times greater than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 15, 2022

Researchers at the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (ICReDD) at Hokkaido University have formulated a technique that has the potential to assist in the recycling of waste carbon dioxide (CO2) while also creating molecules beneficial for drug development. Read more →

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 22, 2022

Researchers have developed an efficient concept to turn carbon dioxide into clean, sustainable fuels, without any unwanted by-products or waste. Read the full story from the University of Cambridge.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The notice of appeal states that the DEP's consent order and agreement with Scrubgrass fails to include protections required under the state Solid Waste Management Act and the federal Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) Rule. uses waste coal to fuel its operations, which results in large quantities of coal ash.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. Biomass and municipal waste. Then with municipal solid waste, you’re solving a waste problem and turning it into energy.”.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It is the main component of “natural gas” and is produced predominantly by the agriculture, energy (oil & gas and coal), and waste sectors. Methane is responsible for 30 percent of current global warming and is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20 year period. C of warming by 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

Last week, Capital Power, a major energy company with natural gas, waste heat, wind, solar and, until this week, coal assets, announced that it’s scrapping plans for a $2.6 billion carbon capture facility at its Genesse power plant west of Edmonton. Want proof?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The pollutants included in these additional penalties were-- volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, hazardous air pollutants and “other pollutants,” excluding carbon dioxide emissions. b of the May 24, 2023 Consent Order and Agreement-- -- $521,549.62 on June 20, 2023 -- $1,046,766.94

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 25, 2023

Algae are known as phototrophs, meaning they utilize (you guessed it) the process of photosynthesis, harnessing the power of sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to provide themselves with essential nutrition. Large brown algal species are superheroes when it comes to absorbing carbon dioxide, in part due to their large size.

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Brag

JUNE 1, 2023

In its May 19, 2023, announcement, BETO states that RCR supports applied research and pilot-scale projects for the production, harvesting/collection, supply logistics, storage, and preprocessing of biomass and wastes to feedstock.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. The closest we’ve ever come to a carbon tax is a limited fee on methane emissions under the new IRA law. I want to talk about some options for using the tax system to change that.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2023

The other big classes that we see are the Class 2D, which are disposal of oil and gas waste wells and the Class 2R, which are oil and gas recovery wells. Klapkowski’s comments came after a presentation by Kristin Carter, DCNR Assistant State Geologist, on carbon capture and hydrogen storage and development before the Advisory Board.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

Enhanced Recovery: Use of carbon dioxide for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery requires the creation of a unit by the Commissioner of Conservation for the purpose of secondary or tertiary recovery under La. Rather, it is the approval to use a specific reservoir for injection and storage of carbon dioxide. 30:5(C).

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Promising announcements from the waste sector Although the announcements around oil and gas methane reduction initiatives are worth celebrating, these emissions are only responsible for about 40% of anthropogenic methane emissions. The agriculture and waste sectors share the remaining 60% of emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Burning waste pollutes the air and warms the climate. This subsidy—the largest granted to any company on the list at nearly $3 million—tips the scales in favour of expanded waste burning at a time when we need to focus on generating less waste and fewer emissions.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

EPA is the primary authority for Class VI well permits, which are essential for the underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). 4] Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) ,Railroad Commission of Texas, [link] (last visited Jan. Regan to Governors (Dec. 4, 2024). [5]

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Brag

JULY 10, 2023

The 2023 Project Peer Review included presentations in 11 technology areas: Advanced Algal Systems Program; Biochemical Conversion and Lignin Utilization; Agile BioFoundry Consortium; Catalytic Upgrading; Carbon Dioxide Utilization; Data, Modeling, and Analysis Program; Performance-Advantaged Bioproducts, Bioprocessing Separations, and Plastics; Organic (..)

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

The process is a win-win for systems that can afford the upfront costs of these waste-to-energy technologies. Wastewater-to-energy systems start with a process called anaerobic digestion, which treatment plants have long used to reduce the volume of sewage waste. Using biogas for energy is not carbon neutral.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

“We encourage everyone to find ways to reduce their waste, reuse materials, recycle what they can, and properly dispose of what they must.” Because of recycling, nearly 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions are avoided every year, or the equivalent of removing 2.15

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Read the full story from the National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

Planting native trees and shrubs is an act of hope, faith, and healing will contribute to sequestration of the excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere that is changing our global weather. The deadline for ordering is January 20. NewsClips: -- Public News Service: Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Has Planted More Than 5.9

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted. New science has shown that the largest fossil fuel, dairy, and waste methane super-emitters contribute a sizeable fraction of the total methane emissions in the regions the study authors monitored.

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