DOE Official: CCS May Not be Best Option for Developing Countries
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Budget & Policy
CCS Deployment Must be Accelerated, New IEA Report Says
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/19/2014 Coal use, as it is now, is unsustainable, underscoring the need to drastically accelerate the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration, according to the 2014 Medium-Term Coal Market Report released by the International… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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U.K. to Provide £2.5M Toward North Sea Storage Development
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/19/2014 New funding totaling £2.5 million to develop carbon storage sites in the North Sea has been made available by the U.K.’s Department of Energy and Climate Change, the DECC announced this week. The funding will… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Budget & Policy
CCS is Bridge Between Coal Demand and Climate Efforts, Experts Say
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/19/2014 With coal set to remain a significant portion of the global energy mix well into the foreseeable future, carbon capture and storage can help solve both increasing energy demand and a need to reduce carbon emissions, experts… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Budget & Policy
Estimation of Benefits of EPA CO2 Regs. Questionable, Experts Say
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/19/2014 Various parameters and variables exist within the means by which the Environmental Protection Agency measured the potential benefits of its proposed carbon emissions standards for existing coal fired power plants that could… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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U.S. CCS Efforts Significant, Regulatory Issus Remain, IEA Says
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/19/2014 The United States has become a global leader in carbon capture and storage efforts, but beyond research and development, issues relating the legal and regulatory climate surrounding the technology must be cleared up, the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Sierra Club Files Appeal to Nov. FutureGen 2.0 Summary Judgment
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/19/2014 The Sierra Club has filed an appeal to a November summary judgment granted by the Illinois Pollution Control Board in favor of the FutureGen 2.0 project under development in Meredosia, Ill. In the Dec. 11 appeal, the Sierra… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Publication Notice
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Senate Confirms New Assistant Energy Secretary for Fossil Energy
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/19/2014 In a last minute wave of confirmations this week, the Senate confirmed Christopher Smith as the Department of Energy’s Assistant Secretary of Fossil Energy. Smith, who had held the title of Principal Deputy Assistant… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Budget & Policy
EPA Still Reviewing Comments on NSPS as Jan. 8 Deadline Looms
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/19/2014 With a Jan. 8 deadline for finalization of the Environmental Protection Agency’s New Source Performance Standards for new-build coal-fired power plants fast approaching, the agency is still going through the more than… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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EPA Carbon Regs. Unworkable, House Energy Panel Says
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/19/2014 Carbon emissions standards for existing coal fired power plants proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency in June are unworkable, unrealistic and may not be legal, according to a report released this week by Republicans… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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CCS Could be Used in Natural Gas Plants In 15 Years, Expert Says
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/19/2014 If the wide-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage technology on coal occurs within 10 years, deployment of the technology onto natural gas facilities could follow as little as five years behind, according to Revis… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Lima Conference Results in Better Understood Parameters for INDCs
Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/19/2014 After two weeks of negotiations in Lima, Peru, delegates to the 20th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 20) left early this week with a slightly better… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Wrap Up
GHG Monitor 12/19/2014 IN CONGRESS Congress over the weekend completed work on an omnibus spending package for the remainder of FY 2015. For the Environmental Protection Agency, the measure provides a total funding level of $8.14 billion, down from last year’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingExchange Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]