Industry Leaders Speak Out Against Proposed EPA Carbon Regs
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Budget & Policy
MIT Study Questions Efficiency of Mineralization in CO2 Storage
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/23/2015 Carbon dioxide injected into saline aquifers for storage may not react with brine within the aquifers as previously thought, raising efficiency questions, according to a study published this week by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The study sought to discover what chemical interactions take place within the […]
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Budget & Policy
Ind. Official: Reevaluation Central to Fourth Phase of CO2 Capture Project
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/23/2015 A fourth phase of the CO2 Capture Project (CCP), a research collaboration of several major energy companies, will be a reassessment of work done in the first three phases to discover the most cost effective and efficient means of carbon capture, Nigel Jenvey, manager of Carbon Solutions for BP […]
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Budget & Policy
Obama Notes Efforts to Combat Climate Change in State of the Union
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/23/2015 President Barack Obama pledged this week to prevent Congress from undoing steps his Administration has taken to combat climate change domestically and internationally. “Over the past six years, we’ve done more than ever to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it. […]
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Budget & Policy
World Bank President Calls for Price on Carbon
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/23/2015 As several of the world’s public and private sector leaders gather this week in Davos, Switzerland, for the 2015 World Economic Forum, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is calling on those in attendance to take action on the development of a carbon price. “In Davos, pricing carbon will […]
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Budget & Policy
Four European Utilities Leave Zero Emissions Platform
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/23/2015 A group of four European utility companies are pulling out of the Zero Emissions Platform (ZEP), an advisory group to the European Commission on carbon capture and storage, because of concerns over the cost of the technology. The utilities, Germany’s RWE AG, France’s Electricite de France, Sweden’s Vattenfall AB […]
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Budget & Policy
Teesside Industrial CCS Network Project Officially Launches
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/23/2015 An effort to incorporate carbon capture and storage technology in a set of industrial facilities in the area of Teesside in the United Kingdom officially got underway this week with an event at the British Parliament’s House of Commons. The project, which has been branded the Teesside Collective, aims […]