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Energy Innovation Policy & Technology® and RMI Launch 48 U.S. State EPS Models

Energy Innovation

EPS users can design policy packages that achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the economy and pinpoint which policies are most effective at reducing emissions while creating economic and health benefits. Only existing state laws and regulations as of January 2023 are included in the model.

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The future of clean hydrogen in the US could hinge on a new tax credit

The Verge: Energy

The problem is that today, most hydrogen is made with the help of fossil fuels — mostly through a process called steam-methane reforming that produces carbon dioxide emissions. Methane is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, and routinely escapes along the supply chain from production to final use.

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What is in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022? We summarize.

38 North Solutions

Health Care. -$100 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. ZERO EMISSION NUCLEAR POWER PRODUCTION CREDIT.

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? Charting a course to curb maritime emissions

Climate Tech VC

Despite fears about cost increases and low-sulfur fuel availability, the change was a success in terms of decreasing pollution that contributes to ocean acidification and harms the health of humans and marine life. The biggest shipping companies (i.e., Costs for preparation and delivery of BioLNG still remain high. Ease of Adoption: Easiest.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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Big Oil’s Been Secretly Validating Critics’ Concerns about Carbon Capture

DeSmogBlog

The oil major’s “Princeton Carbon Mitigation Initiative” document from April 2016 also concedes that CCS is not faring as well as renewable energy, noting that wind, solar, and vehicle fuel efficiency are taking off while carbon capture, hydrogen, and nuclear power are “faltering.”

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Replace fossil fuels — with more fossil fuels? That’s one major utility’s plan.

DeSmogBlog

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said. “I