Publications: GHG Reduction Technologies Monitor

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/20/2014 Janet McCabe, Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation at the Environmental Protection Agency, fielded an onslaught of questions from House Republicans this week during the first of what is sure to be many hearings on the EPA’s recently proposed carbon emissions regulations for existing coal […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/20/2014 The UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Center (UKCCSRC) announced late this week the allocation of $4.4 million in research funding for 14 CCS-related projects. The projects fall into three categories, carbon capture, carbon storage and CO2 cross cutting, according to a UKCCSRC release. Carbon capture projects were funded […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/20/2014 The Wyoming Pipeline Authority has submitted to the Bureau of Land Management a plan to develop an extensive carbon dioxide pipeline corridor through federal lands, Governor Matt Mead announced late last week. The project, called the Wyoming Pipeline Corridor Initiative (WPCI), would establish a network of pipeline corridors totaling […]

House Releases Additional Details of Its Version of Energy Spending Bill Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/20/2014 Senate Democrats this week dropped plans to consider the Fiscal Year 2015 Energy and Water Appropriations bill in response to an attempt by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to add language to the measure that would block […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/20/2014 The Environmental Protection Agency’s “outside the fence” approach in recently released proposed carbon emissions guidelines for existing power plants got a lot of attention during a Bipartisan Policy Center event this week, with Jeffery Holmstead, former Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation with the EPA and Susan Tierney, former […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/20/2014 CO2 Solutions and Neumann Systems Group (NSG) announced this week that they have entered into a collaborative agreement to test their carbon capture technologies together in a pilot demonstration project. Canadian-based CO2 Solutions specializes in enzyme-enabled carbon capture technology which will be paired with NSG’s NeuStream technology, a high […]

GHG Monitor 6/20/2014 IN INDUSTRY Denbury Resources this week named Brad Kerr Senior Vice President of Planning, Technology, CO2 Supply and Pipelines. Kerr will be filling a vacancy left when Charlie Gibson was appointed to the new position of Senior Vice President of Production Operations. Kerr has previously held positions with Royal Dutch Shell and […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/13/2014 The Department of Energy and Southern Company will be working together to test both pre- and post-combustion carbon capture technologies, as well as coal gasification technologies, for the next five years under a new cooperative agreement signed this week. The research will be managed by the National Energy Technology […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/13/2014         Funding for the Department of Energy’s fossil energy research activities would receive a small boost under the House version of the Fiscal Year 2015 Energy and Water Appropriations bill reported out of subcommittee this week. The bill would provide $593 million, up 6 percent from […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/13/2014 One of the expected benefits of the Environmental Protection Agency’s new proposed emissions regulations for existing power plants is increased energy efficiency, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said this week at an event in Washington hosted by the U.S. Energy Association and Johnson Controls. The proposed regulations are comprised of […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/13/2014 Kentucky has emerged as one of the strongest opponents of the Environmental Protection Agency’s new proposed rules to reduce emissions from existing power plants, though some experts have suggested the coal state may not have as many problems adapting to the new rule as originally thought. The proposal would […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/13/2014 While most injection sites for carbon dioxide in the United States are on-shore, there is a large untapped storage resource just off the coast, according to Tip Meckel, a research scientist with University of Texas at Austin’s Bureau of Economic Geology. “Once you step off the shoreline there’s still […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/13/2014                       As U.N. members get ready for a new set of climate talks scheduled to be held in Paris next year, the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions released a new report this week that calls for a “hybrid” […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/13/2014 Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) spoke out against the Environmental Protection Agency’s new proposal to reduce emissions from existing power plants during debate on the Senate floor this week. The regulations would cost billions, Inhofe said. “If enacted, this rule is going to cause serious damage to the economy,” he […]

GHG Monitor 6/13/2014 IN THE INDUSTRY CO2 Solutions this week added three new members to its scientific advisory board. The new members include Professor Jennifer Littlechild of University of Exeter, Professor Roberto Fernandez-Lafuente of Instituto de Catμlisis in Madrid and Professor Patrick Mills of Texas A&M University. This is the first change to the CO2 […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 4/18/2014 A new report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released this week includes carbon capture and sequestration among the technologies that could play a significant role in helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and emphasizes that a move toward a low-carbon future could have less of an […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/6/2014 The European Union needs to, among other steps, invest in the further development of carbon capture and storage to combat vulnerability in their energy sector due to an overreliance on imports, according to the European Energy Security Strategy released by the European Commission last week. According to the report, […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/6/2014 If all states reach carbon emission reduction targets laid out for them in the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed emissions guidelines released early this week, the resulting total nation-wide reduction is estimated to be 30 percent below 2005 levels. The long-awaited rule sets targets for each state as a total […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/6/2014 Proposed regulations released by the Environmental Protection Agency this week setting carbon emission reduction targets for each state would drive innovation, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said in announcing the rules, though it remains unclear how much the new regulations will drive the development of technologies such as carbon capture […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/6/2014 Officials in all states are mulling over the proposed emissions guidelines for existing fossil fuel fired power plants released this week by the Environmental Protection Agency. Those who have already enacted their own measures to reduce carbon emissions have expressed confidence (though in some cases cautious) over their ability […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/6/2014 Researchers at Rice University have developed a new material that has the potential to remove carbon from natural gas at wellheads. The material has the potential to drastically decrease the cost of carbon capture, Rice Professor James Tour said in a Rice University press release. The material, a nanoporous […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 6/6/2014 Between 14 and 17 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide could potentially be stored in southwestern Wyoming, according to results of a study sponsored by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) released this week. The study concluded that the Wyoming Rock Springs Uplift geologic feature has the “ideal geologic […]

GHG Monitor 6/6/2014 ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has expressed an intention to conduct research into clean coal for Egypt. UNIDO spokesman Ahmed Nabil Fahmy said early this week that UNIDO would sign an agreement regarding the research with the Egyptian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Investment by […]