Publications: GHG Reduction Technologies Monitor

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/9/2015 Proposed carbon emissions standards for new, modified and existing coal-fired power plants will now not be finalized until mid-summer, the Environmental Protection Agency announced this week. The EPA was under a statutory deadline to finalize the first of the rule, the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) which largely mandates […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/9/2015 The White Rose CCS project in the United Kingdom, which is currently undergoing a two year Front End Engineering and Design study, took significant steps forward late last month with the acceptance of the project’s Development Consent Order (DCO) by the Planning Inspectorate and the award of a development […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/9/2015 Before the United States can adequately address energy and environment needs through policy, the technology to do so must be developed and proven, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said during an event hosted this week by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. “We have obviously very robust technology […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/9/2015 Scotland’s energy system could feasibly be fueled almost entirely by renewable energy by 2030, according to a study published this week commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund. The report argues against a reliance on the eventual development of carbon capture and storage technology, though, stating that the technology is […]

GHG Monitor 1/9/2015 IN CONGRESS           Sen. Barbra Boxer (D-Calif.) announced this week that she will not seek re-election in 2016. In a video posted by the senator to her PAC for a Change website, she gave little explanation for the decision, save for a desire to “come home to this state that I love so […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/19/2014 While the United States is well poised for the eventual wide-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage technology, that option may not be the best for some developing countries, Julio Friedmann, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Clean Coal, said this week during an event hosted by the Center […]

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 Energy Agency this week. Because of the many benefits of coal, including its abundance and affordability, […]

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 be delivered by the Energy Technologies Institute, a U.K.-based energy research, development and demonstration […]

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 said this week at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic […]

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 affect the credibility of the EPA analysis, a group of experts said during a webinar hosted by […]

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 International Energy Agency found in a review of U.S. energy policy released this week. In […]

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 Club states that the November ruling “was clearly erroneous, arbitrary and […]

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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 Secretary for Fossil Energy, was nominated to fill the Assistant Secretary position in September 2013. […]

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 one million comments received during the comment period, EPA spokeswoman Liz Purchia told GHG Monitor this week. […]

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 on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The proposed regulation sets state-specific carbon emission reduction […]

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 James, Director for Generation Research and Development at the Electric Power Research Institute. Speaking […]

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 idea of what would be expected leading up to and at […]

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 $8.2 billion, but still significantly higher than the Obama Administration’s FY15 request of $7.89 […]

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ExchangeMonitor Founder and Publisher Edward Helminski Dies at 72 GHG Monitor 12/12/2014 Edward Lawrence Helminski, the founder, publisher and president of ExchangeMonitor publications, died peacefully in his home in Washington, D.C, on Dec. 5. He was 72.  Helminski’s diverse career spanned from academia to energy policy work with states and the White House to newsletter […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/12/2014 Throughout the two-weeklong 20th Conference of the Parties (COP20) wrapping up in Lima, Peru, this week, representatives from the nearly 200 countries in attendance have worked well together, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said during a press briefing at the conference this week. The COP20 is […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/12/2014 With Congress set to soon go out of session, the Department of Energy remains without a confirmed Assistant Secretary of Fossil Energy.  Christopher Smith, who currently holds the title of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, the number two position at FE, was nominated to fill the Assistant […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/12/2014 Emile “Chip” Troxclair has been named to lead the Kemper Country Energy Facility to commercial operation as the Vice President of Kemper development, Mississippi Power announced late this week. In his new role, Troxclair will oversee the world’s first integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant with carbon capture and storage […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/12/2014 Funding for Department of Energy programs related to fossil energy and carbon capture and storage research would see increases under the FY 2015 omnibus package Congress released this week. The bill would provide a total of $571 million for fossil energy research and development, well above the Obama Administration’s […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/12/2014 Funding for the Environmental Protection Agency would be cut by approximately $60 million from current levels in the Fiscal Year 2015 omnibus spending bill Congress released this week. The measure was approved by the House late this week, and the Senate is expected to follow suit early next week. […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/12/2014 The emissions reduction goals within the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon emissions standards for existing coal-fired power plants are significant, but not enough, a group of 10 Senate Democrats and an Independent wrote in a Dec. 9 letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. “We believe that the rule could […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/12/2014 The potential threat of a “carbon bubble” resulting in stranded assets has become the focus of intense scrutiny in recent weeks with news that the Bank of England has launched an inquiry into the threat. The carbon bubble refers to the idea that if global temperature rise it to […]