Publications: GHG Reduction Technologies Monitor

Abby L. Harvey GHG Daily 1/11/2016 Regardless of pushback from the Republican-led Congress, the uncertain future presented by the upcoming presidential election, and a slew of legal challenges to core parts of the Obama administration’s climate plan, senior officials late last week expressed confidence that the United States’ role in the recently struck Paris climate […]

GHG Daily 1/11/2016 Global coal demand has stalled, the International Energy Agency announced late last month in its annual coal market report. The news comes after more than a decade of sharp growth in coal demand. The IEA attributed the pullback to economic restructuring in China, where coal demand is slowing, as well a greater […]

GHG Daily 1/11/2016 Surprising nobody, President Barack Obama vetoed two Congressional Review Act resolutions aimed at overturning the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emissions regulations for new and existing coal-fired power plants. The vetoes came Dec. 18, as Congress headed home for the holidays. The two regulations being threatened require states to develop action plans to […]

GHG Daily 1/11/2016 South Korea-based Alps Energy had signed a letter of intent with Southern Co. and Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to explore the deployment of transport integrated gasification (TRIG) technology at a new 1,000-megawatt Alps Energy power plant in South Korea. The TRIG tech, developed by Southern and KBR, is undergoing testing at […]

GHG Daily 1/11/2016 In developing action plans to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, carbon emissions standards for existing coal-fired power plants, states may find themselves comparing apples to oranges when it comes to the EPA’s implementation options, according to a report issued Jan. 6 by The Brattle Group. The report says, […]

GHG Daily 1/11/2016 Schlumberger Carbon Services, as a subrecipient of the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium, may have been allowed to claim more than $5 million in unsupported or questionable costs from the Department of Energy, according to a Dec. 18, 2015, report by the DOE Office of Inspector General. An IG audit revealed that inadequate […]

GHG Daily 1/11/2016 Norwegian oil company Statoil will explore the feasibility of carbon storage on the Norwegian Continental Shelf with the support of the country’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. The parties signed a contract on Jan. 4, totaling $4 million (USD) for the five-month project. The study will explore three different locations on the […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Daily 1/11/2016 The full opening of the much-delayed Kemper County Energy Facility might be pushed back yet again, according to site owner Mississippi Power. The plant, a new-build post-combustion carbon capture and storage project under development near the city of Meridian, was initially slated to reach full operation in 2013. The […]

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Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/18/2015 California Energy Commission (CEC) staff this week called for termination of the application for certification of the Hydrogen Energy California (HECA) project. The project’s developer, SCS Energy, in mid-July received a six-month extension to obtain its certification, essentially suspending the project. Certification by the CEC is necessary for the […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/18/2015 Riders and funding limitations threatened for inclusion in the fiscal year 2016 omnibus funding bill appear to have fallen by the wayside as the bill was approved by both houses of Congress Friday. Riders that would have undone or withheld funding for implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/18/2015 Back home after weeks in France, key administration officials this week offered their views on the negotiating process leading up to the recently adopted Paris Agreement, the first universal legally binding climate deal in history. The agreement was finalized Dec. 12 at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) to […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/18/2015 Following last week’s adoption of the Paris Agreement, the world’s first global deal binding developed and developing countries to act against climate change, a group of more than 800 cities, regions, companies, and investors have signed the Paris Pledge for Action. The pledge acts as a means for subnational […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/11/2015 PARIS – Without clean energy innovation, countries will be unlikely to increase their ambition in future climate mitigation efforts, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said Monday. Moniz, speaking to reporters at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), highlighted […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/11/2015 PARIS — Late Thursday, Laurent Fabius, president of the Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, released a new version of the draft text of the global climate agreement negotiated here over the last two weeks. Fabius had pushed hard for a final […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/11/2015 PARIS – The United States, as the world’s largest economy and second-largest greenhouse gas emitter, plays a key role in the ongoing negotiations toward a global climate agreement in Paris. The administration has made clear its view on the proceedings at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/11/2015 Summit Energy, developer of the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP), has finalized a consortium engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract with China Huanqiu Contracting (HQC) & Engineering Corp. and SNC-Lavalin Engineers and Constructors Inc. The contract covers engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and performance testing of the chemical and carbon […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/11/2015 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday released a climate change plan that would commit the U.S. to reducing its carbon pollution by 40 percent by 2030 and more than 80 percent by 2050 below 1990 levels. To do so, the plan says, Sanders would place a […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/11/2015 PARIS — As negotiators debated whether the world should strive to limit global warming to 2 or 1.5 degrees Celsius, supporters of carbon capture and storage technology have a universal message: neither goal can be reached if CCS is not brought to scale. “If we want to achieve the […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/11/2015 PARIS – Regardless of political statements from Republican lawmakers asserting that the U.S. Congress does not support the Obama administration’s efforts to address climate change, the administration has the support of the American people, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said Thursday. “If you’re worried about rhetoric you hear […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/4/2015 A group of more than 600 state and local Democratic officials in a Nov. 24 letter to President Barack Obama called for increased government support for carbon capture and storage technology. “If we are to be serious about addressing the climate challenge, we must get serious about CCS, making […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/4/2015 If companies continue investing in a way that supports fossil fuel development, they could end up wasting $2 trillion, buried in fossil fuel projects that cannot go forward if nations are to get on track to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, according to a report published […]

GHG Monitor 12/4/2015 Our reporter for GHG Monitor will travel to Paris during the second week of the 21st Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, where a new global climate agreement is hoped to be struck. Subscribers can expect special bulletins on the proceedings throughout the week. Follow us […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/4/2015 While heads of state made their presentations during the first plenary sessions of the 21st Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris this week, the members of the Ad hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform (ADP) were hard at work trying […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/4/2015 One week into the two-week global climate negotiations in Paris, Republican lawmakers have yet to head to the French capital, though they continue to decry President Barack Obama’s efforts to clinch a deal from Capitol Hill. GOP arguments against U.S. involvement in the agreement include assertions that national efforts […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/4/2015 The 21st Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change saw a large focus placed on money in its first days, with several significant funding announcements made this week in Paris. Several governments, as well as private sector entities, have indicated their intentions to commit […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/4/2015 The House this week approved two Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions disapproving of the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emissions standards for new and existing coal-fired power plants, sending the measures to President Barack Obama for an almost certain veto. The measures passed in the Senate on Nov. 17 and […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 12/4/2015 In response to the United Kingdom’s decision to ax a £1 billion carbon capture and storage commercialization competition, Royal Dutch Shell has announced that it will not proceed with its Peterhead carbon capture and storage project. The project, one of two that remained in the competition, would have been […]