Publications: GHG Reduction Technologies Monitor

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 4/3/2015 The ongoing debate over the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon emission reduction standards for existing coal-fired power plants is not as heated outside of Washington, Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy said during an event hosted by Politico this week. The proposed regulations, which have been met with resistance […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 4/3/2015 As the informal deadline for countries to submit their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) to the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change hit this week, several countries, including the United States, announced their post 2020 climate goals. The U.S. targets closely mirror commitments made in November 2014 during […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 4/3/2015 Royal Dutch Shell had officially submitted a planning application for its Peterhead carbon capture and storage project with local officials in Scotland, marking a major step forward in the development of the project.  The Peterhead project will retrofit CCS technology onto a 385 MW portion of an existing gas-fired […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 4/3/2015 The Caledonia Clean Energy Project, which failed to secure funding in the United Kingdom’s carbon capture and storage competition, has been awarded £4.2 million for research support in a joint announcement by the Scottish and U.K. governments. The project is a 570 MW new-build integrated gasification combined cycle project […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 4/3/2015 The Department of Energy moved this week to extend a set of support contracts at the National Energy Technology Laboratory as the procurement for the new Mission Execution and Strategic Analysis (MESA) contract continues. The extensions were provided to Leonardo Technologies, which provides Program and Performance Management services; Booz […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 4/3/2015 Expanding access to electricity in developing nations, while also avoiding building a reliance on high-carbon fossil fuels like coal in those nations, became a point of discussion as the Board of the Green Climate Fund met last week in Songdo, South Korea. “The Fund will need to address two […]

GHG Monitor 4/3/2015 IN THE STATES The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon emissions standards for coal-fired power plants could cost Virginia more than 38,000 jobs by 2030, according to a new report released this week by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, a Virginia-based research organization. The regulations in question would set emissions reduction […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/27/2015 Southern Company will join a delegation of 25 American companies on a business development trade mission to China led by the U.S. departments of Energy and Commerce next month. The delegation will travel to Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou in an effort to “launch or increase their business operations in […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/27/2015 A bill introduced by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.V) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) late last week to reauthorize the U.S. Export-Import Bank includes language that would lift the bank’s current restrictions on financing new coal-fired power plants unless they use carbon capture technology. A provision in the bill states that […]

Environmental Groups Warn Against “Just Say No” Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/27/2015 Continuing a campaign urging states to oppose the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon emissions standards for coal-fired power plants, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last week sent a letter to the nation’s governors advising them not to submit implementation plans until […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/27/2015 Several senators were successful late this week in adding provisions concerning carbon pollution and climate change to the Senate version of the Fiscal Year 2016 budget resolution. Among the amendments put forth during debate on the budget resolution was one by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) that would put in […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/27/2015 The European Union will work to develop an energy union based on a European Commission framework released last month, the EU announced late last week. The European Council wrote that “the EU is committed to building an Energy Union with a forward-looking climate policy on the basis of the […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/27/2015 A series of new reports released this week by the United Kingdom’s Department of Energy & Climate Change and by British think tank the Green Alliance highlight the significant impact that the development of carbon capture and storage hubs, or “clusters,” throughout the country will have on the industrial […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/20/2015 Mississippi Power officially filed an application for rehearing with the Mississippi Supreme Court late last week looking for a reversal of a February court decision ordering the utility to return to ratepayers approximately $257 million collected since March 2013 to help pay for construction of the Kemper County Energy […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/20/2015 The Environmental Protection Agency, in its attempt to regulate carbon emissions through its proposed standards for existing coal fire power plants, is “attempting an unconstitutional trifecta, usurping the purgatives of the states, Congress and the federal courts all at once,” Harvard constitutional law professor Lawrence Tribe told lawmakers during […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/20/2015 Coal producers concerned that the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon emissions standards for existing coal fired power plants will spell disaster for their industry should “embrace” carbon capture and storage technology, Rep. Jerry McNerney (D – Calif.) said during a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/20/2015 A new House caucus, tasked with educating representatives about the benefits of enhanced oil recovery, was launched this week by caucus co-chairs Reps. Michael Conaway (R -Texas), Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) and Marc Veasey (D-Texas.). Veasey, a member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, said he learned […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/20/2015 To take full advantage of the economic and environmental benefits of carbon capture and storage, the United Kingdom should develop 10 GW of CCS capacity no later than 2030, according to a report released this week by the Energy Technologies Institute, a U.K. public-private partnership. “This level of ambition […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/20/2015 Describing carbon capture and storage as integral to combating climate change, Royal Dutch Shell Chairman Jorma Ollila urged increased support for CCS technology in the company’s 2014 Annual Report, released late last week. “It is clear that new technologies will be needed to tackle climate change effectively. For example, […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/13/2015 Both gasifiers at the Kemper County Energy Facility have undergone their “first fire,” representing one of the “most significant milestones to date” at the facility, Mississippi Power announced this week. Thus far, the gasifiers have operated as expected based on testing conducted last year, the company said. “It’s like […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/13/2015 If finalized, the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon emissions standards for existing coal-fired power plants could push manufacturers overseas where they would rely on dirtier energy resulting in higher global carbon emissions, Thomas Easterly, Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, said during a Senate Environment and Public […]

GHG Monitor 3/13/2015 ExchangeMonitor Publications and Forums was acquired this week by Access Intelligence, LLC, a business-to-business media and information company headquartered in Rockville, Md., serving the chemical, defense, satellite, aviation, cable, telecommunications, media and public relations markets. The acquisition comes roughly three months after Ed Helminski, the founder of ExchangeMonitor Publications and Forums, passed […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/13/2015 In the face of a veto threat from the Obama Administration, House lawmakers are gearing up to vote on two bills that would change the rules for who can sit on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Independent Science Advisory Board and that would require that all scientific data used to […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/13/2015 The West Virginia state legislature will have final say on the state’s implementation plan for the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon emissions standards for coal fired power plants under a new law signed by West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin last week. Under the new law, once the EPA […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/13/2015 Global dependence on cheap coal is a threat to climate mitigation and while carbon capture and storage technology could help, other low carbon fuel sources will be preferred in the long-run, Secretary of State John Kerry said this week at an event hosted by the Atlantic Council.  “In certain […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 3/13/2015 Following the ascension of Julio Friedmann to the position of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary within the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy, David Mohler has been appointed to fill the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Clean Coal and Carbon Management. Mohler most recently served as vice president […]