Publications: GHG Monitor

The Department of Energy will continue to advance the development of carbon capture and storage technology with Rick Perry at the helm, the energy secretary nominee said Thursday during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “I am certain, I feel positive that some scientist, some incredibly capable man or woman, […]

It is in the interest of U.S. national security to take advantage of all of the nation’s natural resources, included those on federal lands, President Donald Trump’s nominee for interior secretary, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.), said Tuesday during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “As a former Navy SEAL I […]

The Environmental Protection Agency is required under law to regulate carbon emissions, Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the regulator, said Wednesday during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “There is currently an obligation to deal with the issue. The Massachusetts v. EPA case says that CO2 is […]

France is on the right track for energy security with its ongoing energy transition efforts, the International Energy Agency declared The U.S. Department State this week announced a payment of $500 million to the U.N.’s Green Climate Fund. Chinese President Xi Jinping during the World Economic Forum annual meeting this week warned President Donald Trump […]

The potential for carbon capture and storage to boost domestic energy production bodes well for the technology’s development under the administration of President Donald Trump, according to experts in the field. “It’s reasonable to be optimistic that we’ll see support for carbon capture because using manmade carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) boosts domestic […]

GHG Monitor will cease production as of today. Our reporter, Abby L. Harvey, will continue her coverage with POWER Magazine, a fellow Access Intelligence Publication.

Mississippi Power’s Kemper County Clean Energy Facility carbon capture and storage project is now expected to cost $7.01 billion, the utility said in its latest filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The plant, a new-build coal-fired power plant with a pre-combustion carbon capture system, was initially billed at $2.4 billion prior to construction […]

President Barack Obama this week reminded the nation of the reality of climate change and urged continued work in both the public and private domains to address the issue under the incoming administration of President-elect (and sometimes climate change denier) Donald Trump. “Without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information […]

Refusing to provide President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team with a requested list of Department of Energy employees who worked on climate change issues wasn’t just the right thing to do for employees, but also for Rick Perry, Trump’s pick to lead the agency, outgoing Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Wednesday. Addressing the press for the […]

Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson on Wednesday doubled down on his belief that climate change is real and that the United States should remain a member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change regardless of President-elect Donald Trump’s publicly stated stance that climate change is a hoax. “I came to the conclusion […]

With little fanfare, NRG Energy on Tuesday announced the successful completion of its Petra Nova carbon capture and storage project near Houston, Texas. The project, which was completed on time and on budget, is the world’s largest post-combustion CCS project and the first operational commercial-scale CCS project in the U.S. “I’m really proud. I’m really […]

Jonathan Pershing, U.S. special envoy for climate change, is no longer looking down the barrel of unemployment. On Tuesday, he will start his new job as the director of the Environment Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. S. coal production fell in 2016, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced this week. Production in […]

Donald Trump’s impending presidency will not delay the court-ordered schedule for a federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emissions standards for new-build coal-fired power plants, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ordered Wednesday. The current schedule gives petitioners until Jan. 19 to respond to the EPA and its intervenors’ briefs […]

Carbon Capture and Storage got a bit of attention in the mainstream media Tuesday with a lengthy article in the science section of The New York Times. Reporter John Schwartz questioned if the technology can prosper under the incoming Trump administration. Resources for the Future has a new blog post exploring the potential for CCS […]

Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are not about to let Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt be confirmed as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency without a fight. Pruitt, who has fought the EPA tooth and nail for several years against regulating the fossil fuel industries, is one of President-elect Donald […]

SaskPower captured 792,533 metric tons of CO2 in 2016 at its Boundary Dam power plant Unit 3 carbon capture and storage project, just 7,467 metric tons shy of its goal for the year. That total could be made up in three days of typical operation at the plant, according to Jonathan Tremblay, spokesman for the […]

After just one week in session, the Republicans of the 115th Congress have made clear their intentions to come down hard on executive branch regulation. Three bills introduced this week, the Regulatory Accountability Act, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, and the Midnight Rules Relief Act, aim to limit the power […]

A commercial carbon capture and storage project in India is proving environmentally beneficial, even if that isn’t what the plant’s owner had in mind. The plant was launched in October 2016 and has been actively capturing CO2 from the flue gas of a 10-megawatt coal boiler owned by Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals & Fertilizers near Chennai, […]

GHG Monitor is happy to announce the launch of a new, restructured publication in early January. GHG Weekly will offer detailed coverage of carbon capture, utilization, and storage development around the world, as well as exhaustive analysis of government actions at all levels affecting the advancement of this important technology. You won’t find this in-depth […]

Donald Trump’s presidency is no reason to delay the court-ordered schedule for a federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emissions standards for new-build coal fired power plants, the EPA said in a Wednesday court filing. The current schedule in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sets a Jan. 19 deadline […]

Since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, the Department of Energy has invested nearly $5 billion in research related to carbon capture and storage. That number could change drastically with the incoming administration of Donald Trump, if his recent selection of Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) to direct the White House Office of Management and […]

The Department of Energy on Wednesday announced the first project that could be supported by its $8 billion loan guarantee for advanced fossil energy projects. The department has offered a conditional commitment to guarantee loans of up to $2 billion to Lake Charles Methanol LLC for the construction of the world’s first methanol production facility […]

The Environmental Protection Agency got a little backup Wednesday in a federal lawsuit challenging its carbon emissions standards for new-build coal-fired power plants. Two amici curiae briefs, one submitted by carbon capture and storage scientists and another by academics whose work focuses on technology innovation, asserted that contrary to the arguments of the petitioners, the […]

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency has drawn ire from Democrats and environmentalists, but more than a few notable Republicans are quite pleased with the selection of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt. “Under Pruitt’s leadership, EPA will return to an agency that works to protect human health and the environment based […]

The United States is considered a world leader in matters of climate change, but will lose that position if President-elect Donald Trump follows through with his campaign pledges, according to White House science adviser John Holdren. “If the United States were to step back from its leadership position in climate change, China would happily assume […]