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Polluters Rely on Old Rhetoric to Block Clean Energy Future

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering proposals aimed at reducing climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing coal and gas-fueled power plants. This not-so-fast rhetoric is nothing new. National policy must avoid imprudent attempts to make ‘great leaps forward,’” declared Philip Sporn in 1967.

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What you should know about new Interior Secretary Deb Haaland

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As a valuable carbon sink, America’s public lands and waters are an essential part of a successful federal climate strategy, writes Alison Kelly, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Currently, the country’s 154 national forests absorb about 10 percent of the nation’s total carbon emissions each year, and a U.S.

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Drax Eyeing California as Site of New Biomass Carbon Capture Plant

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British biomass giant Drax is lobbying the Californian government to play host to its first ever “carbon negative” power plant outside of the UK, despite concerns about the sustainability of the energy source. BECCS is a controversial technology that captures carbon dioxide from burning organic matter and buries it underground.

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Local Governments and Grassroots Activists Stop Spate of US Carbon Capture Pipelines

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Players in the carbon dioxide pipeline industry canceled major pipeline projects in recent weeks, marking an inauspicious start to President Biden’s ambitious plans to develop carbon capture infrastructure as a key emissions mitigation tool. Midwest to be injected and stored underground. Navigator’s $3.5

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Fossil Fuel Advocates Spread Disinfo About Canada’s False Advertising Bill

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If passed into law, the bill would be a valuable step toward limiting misinformation about fossil fuels and countering greenwashing.” “The Shockingly, Canada has the third highest global rate of new childhood asthma cases from traffic pollution, following Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

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Drax Quietly Drops Sponsorship of Industry Conferences

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UK biomass giant Drax has pulled out of two industry conferences following weeks of negative publicity, DeSmog can reveal. billion in government subsidies for a carbon capture project. The jig is up for Drax,” Megan Corton Scott, a political campaigner at Greenpeace UK told DeSmog. “An manufacturing plants. “The

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Scientists Condemn ‘Misinformation’ Used to Attack EU Reforms to Protect Nature

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They argue that the laws will cause a drop in EU food production and lead to widespread economic losses. The European Parliament’s committees are expected to vote on pesticide laws (the “SUR regulation”) from July. Nature Under Pressure Agriculture is currently responsible for over 10 percent of EU carbon emissions.

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