EPA Has Yet to Hear From Trump Transition Team
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Budget & Policy
Canada to Cut Unabated Coal by 2030
While the next president of the United States looks to reinvigorate the nation’s failing coal industry, Canada has pledged to stop all unabated coal use by 2030.The Canadian government on Monday also committed to produce 90 percent of its energy with non-carbon sources by that year. “We will help achieve this goal by amending existing […]
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Innovation & Infrastructure
Use of Cement as Carbon Sink Overlooked, Study Finds
Cement structures can be used to absorb carbon emissions, potentially offsetting emissions from cement production itself, according to a study issued Monday by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the United Kingdom. The “natural carbonation process of cement materials represents a large and growing ‘sink’ of CO2,” the study says, but the […]
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Budget & Policy
U.S. Election Transformed COP22, Policy Expert Says
The election of Republican Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States threw the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) into a state of anxiety, Elliot Diringer, executive vice president at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, said Monday in […]