Meeting Global Climate Goals will Fall Largely on Cities, Expert Says
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Budget & Policy
Senate Dems Include Carbon Utilization Provision in Energy Bill
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 9/25/2015 A group of Senate Democrats led by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) this week released an energy bill that includes a provision that would add carbon utilization and storage efforts to a section of the Energy Policy Act of 2005… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be […]
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International
ZEP Demonstrates Path Forward for CCS In EU
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 9/25/2015 The European Union can support progress toward the deployment of carbon capture and storage by optimizing existing policies and resources, according to a report released this week by the Zero Emissions Platform, an advisory… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Budget & Policy
TCEP to Miss Recovery Act Spending Deadline
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 9/25/2015 Summit Power, developer of the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP), will not meet the Sept. 30 spending deadline for $104 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding, a company executive acknowledged this week.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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International
Drax Pulls Out of White Rose Project, but Work Continues
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 9/25/2015 British power producer Drax said on Friday it has withdrawn from the White Rose carbon capture and storage project. The project is currently under development by Capture Power Ltd., a consortium of Drax, Alstom, and BOC. White… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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International
China Announces Nationwide Cap-and-Trade Program
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 9/25/2015 Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday announced that his nation will have a national cap-and-trade system in place by 2017. The emissions trading system, announced during Xi’s visit to the White House to meet with President… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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International
Technology Center Mongstad to Launch New Test Campaigns
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 9/25/2015 Three new carbon capture processes are due to begin testing at Norway’s Technology Center Mongstad (TCM), according to a new release by Clean Carbon Solutions Ltd. (CCSL), a capture solvent developer and one of TCM’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Budget & Policy
Use of Revenue Key to Success of Carbon Pricing, Experts Say
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 9/25/2015 On the surface, adopting a price on carbon might seem like a costly and potentially risky move economically. However, when examining the possibilities presented by a significant new source of revenue, a carbon price becomes… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Budget & Policy
MIT Researcher: Climate Policy, Market Push Needed to Advance CCS
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 9/25/2015 What once seemed a very promising future for carbon capture and storage has fallen by the wayside due to a lack of market development, but all is not lost, according to MIT Senior Research Engineer Howard Herzog. “The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Wrap Up
IN THE STATES Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt (R) this week dropped his appeal of a 10th Circuit Court dismissal of a lawsuit filed in June challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emissions standards for existing coal-fired power plants.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]