DeSmogBlog

MARCH 29, 2024

That’s because a state law passed in 2021 regulating carbon capture includes a provision allowing companies to claim a wide range of project information — including location — as trade secrets. Class V test wells associated with potential Class VI carbon dioxide storage projects in Louisiana, March 2024. So that was the cost.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The passage of clean air laws, which removed these aerosols from the atmosphere, ironically unleashed a trend of worsening floods. It’s not good news: Now that there’s nothing to offset the heat-trapping effect of carbon dioxide and methane, much of the country is about to get a lot wetter and see a lot more monster storms.

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

Methane and Superfund. -$15 Current law taxes the performance-based compensation paid to managers of certain investment partnerships at long-term capital-gains rates rather than as ordinary income provided that a three-year holding period is met. Part 1 (First 3 years or 2022-2024). . -$100 billion. . . Total Spending. -$485

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. Oregon and British Columbia have a similar low-carbon fuel standard and Washington state just passed a law creating one.). It was a novel experiment at the time.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 3, 2020

The move to exit merchant generation while retaining its three nuclear power plants “could reduce overall business risk and earnings volatility, improve our credit profile, and enhance an already compelling ESG position driven by pending clean energy investments, methane reduction and zero-carbon generation,” Izzo said.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

Europe and North America have had clean air laws in place for almost half a century. But Diamond suggests the aerosol dilemma shines a spotlight on the need to give priority to cutting methane emissions. Since 2013 — following a run of debilitating smogs in many cities — China has followed, at break-neck speed. million tons in 2022.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

China is aiming to promote large-scale carbon capture projects and to track methane emissions from coal, oil, and gas extractions, as part of a new set of green policy guidelines unveiled by its Ministry of Ecology and Environment on Wednesday. France draft climate law attracts criticism from campaign groups. hours are available.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Labour plans to overhaul planning laws, and massively expand the grid to transport electricity in pylons across the country from dozens of new solar and wind farms. Vallance had publicly backed Labour’s pledge for “clean power by 2030”, which he was quoted saying in Labour’s 2024 election manifesto “is achievable and should be prioritised”.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

2024 is shaping up to be a busy year, with climate at the forefront. 66 percent of respondents to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Perception Survey ( GRPS ) identified extreme weather as “most likely to present a material crisis on a global scale in 2024.” Hello and Happy New Year from the Climate Policy Leadership Team!

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

“It may provide something of a roadmap for future cases,” Jennifer Rushlow, dean of the Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment, professor of law, and faculty director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School, told DeSmog. In Norway, a climate lawsuit trial got underway during the same week as the Belgium ruling.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

So-called “blue” hydrogen – created by natural gas and paired with some sort of CCS technology – also generates both emissions and leakage of methane, a greenhouse gas some 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year window. CCS sits alongside hydrogen as another pillar of Exxon’s “low-carbon solutions” business.)

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

This annual assessment acts as a “stick” policy to push shippers to decarbonize and ratings will become more stringent over time, with the threshold for each decreasing by ~2% each year—meaning ships that receive an A in 2023 could get a B rating in 2024 with the same CII score. The biggest shipping companies (i.e.,

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 5, 2024

In other news, federal interest rate cuts and holds; airlines dropping decarbonization targets; and South Africa's new climate change laws. Countdown to New York Climate Week 2024 Okay, we’ll just go ahead and admit it – we’re already looking forward to New York Climate Week 🥳 Nerdy, and we own it!

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Climate strategies that create a broad demand for hydrogen fuel instead of transitioning to renewables and electrification largely serves the fossil fuel industry because, at the moment, it will increase the demand for methane, the primary component of natural gas, while promising to capture emissions for so-called “blue” hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2022

The newly enacted Inflation Reduction Act contains the world’s first-ever fee on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas believed to be responsible for roughly 30 percent of global temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution. billion in financial incentives to clean up their methane.” By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This story was published in partnership with Gen Dread and a video version will be available online on November 16 as part of the Climate Consciousness Summit 2024 , staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with DeSmog. What they were saying about hydrogen when it’s produced from methane, is also a way to perpetuate fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2024

Much of it is methane, which is especially potent for the twelve years it lingers in the atmosphere with a warming potential 28 times that of carbon dioxide. Reducing methane is seen by experts as a quick climate win, and both the food system and energy sector have been called on by UN climate body the IPCC to curb emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 12, 2024

The donation comes on the heels of the Conservative government issuing hundreds of new oil and gas licences in 2023, and writing annual licensing rounds into law. Offshore gas fields worldwide are major sources of emissions of methane, a powerful, short-lived greenhouse gas. degree-warmed world.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Data on subsidies was provided by Oil Change International , which plans to launch a database of government support for CCS in 2024. The plant would also solve the problem posed by a Canadian law passed in 2012, which mandated that all 50-year and older coal power stations be shut down unless they had a carbon capture retrofit.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Methane emissions soar to record high. The level of methane in the Earth's atmosphere surged to a record high for the second year in a row during 2021, according to analysis published on Thursday by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 11, 2024

California and the EU have already put forth more stringent climate disclosure laws, requiring companies operating in either geography to comply and report on Scope 3 emissions.   MethaneSAT, a methane-tracking satellite, was launched this week and will be operated by a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

EPA then worked with the state of California and NHTSA, which sets fuel economy standards—in the mid-1970s, President Ford established the law that NHTSA is using to improve fuel economy, and the basis was not climate change, but energy security. We used our existing laws to set standards that were complementary.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 2016), [link]. [6] 11] Ibid. [12]

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  SPAC valuation ).

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 1, 2024

Repeating Patterns Congressional investigators identified a similar pattern in industry responses to a 2019 decision by Andrew Wheeler , then the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Donald Trump, to roll back a rule designed to reduce methane emissions. Internally, BP agreed with Wheeler’s decision.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Barring any late Congressional dramas, President Joe Biden could sign the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law before the week is out, triggering a multi-billion dollar green investment bonanza that promises to drastically accelerate US emissions reduction efforts. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.

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