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US, China Set Carbon Pollution Goals

November 13, 2014November 13, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The US and China set ambitious climate change goals on Wednesday, with President Obama pledging to cut US greenhouse gas emissions 26 percent to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. Chinese president Xi Jinping announced targets to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 or sooner and to increase China’s ... Read more »

EPA Releases Climate Plans

November 3, 2014October 31, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The EPA has released plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for climate change impacts such as flooding, sea level rise, severe weather and temperature extremes. These Sustainability Plans and Climate Change Adaptation Plans coincide with the fifth anniversary of President Obama’s 2009 Executive Order on Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance, ... Read more »

EPA Rule Limits Ozone-Depleting Refrigerants

October 20, 2014October 17, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The EPA on Friday issued a rule that reduces the domestic production allowances for HCFC-22 to the lowest level ever and proposes a complete phase-out within five years. HCFCs, or hydrochlorofluorocarbons, are a class of refrigerants that are damaging to the ozone layer and contribute to climate change. The rule ... Read more »

US Fuel Economy Hits All-Time High, CO2 Emissions Record Low

October 9, 2014October 9, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

New vehicles achieved an all-time-high fuel economy in 2013, according to an EPA report. Model year 2013 vehicles achieved an average of 24.1 miles per gallon — a 0.5 mpg increase over the previous year and an increase of nearly 5 mpg since 2004. Fuel economy has now increased in ... Read more »

Coal Use Drives US Industrial Emissions Up 0.6%

October 1, 2014October 1, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Emissions from large industrial facilities were 20 million metric tons higher in 2013 than the prior year, or 0.6 percent, driven largely by an increase in coal use for power generation, according to the EPA’s fourth year of Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program data. The Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program is the ... Read more »

Climate Summit Roundup: Obama, Carbon Pricing, Anti-Deforestation Pledge

September 24, 2014October 15, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Major companies and counties across the globe committed to cut emissions and advance a low-carbon economy at yesterday’s UN Climate Summit. Pledges include: President Obama said the US will meet its 17 percent emissions reduction target by 2020, compared to 2005 levels. The US will release a new target next ... Read more »

Climate Summit Roundup: Businesses Pledge Climate Action

September 23, 2014September 23, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The UN Climate Summit opens today with major companies playing a leading role in the gathering of policy makers and business leaders. President Obama and heads of state from more than 120 counties will discuss climate initiatives, but company CEOs are expected to make their own commitments this week, which ... Read more »

China, US, India Lead Record-Setting Carbon Pollution

September 23, 2014September 22, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Global carbon pollution reached a record high last year, spurred by China, the US and India, according to researched published in the peer-reviewed journals Nature Geoscience and Nature Climate Change. Carbon emissions worldwide totaled 39.8 billion tons — some 778 million tons or 2.3 percent more than the previous year, ... Read more »

PepsiCo to Phase Out HFC Equipment by 2020

September 19, 2014September 19, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

PepsiCo has set a goal that by 2020 all of its future point-of-sale equipment (coolers, vending machines and fountain dispensers) purchased in the US will be hydroflourocarbon-free. The company has also signed both the Ceres BICEP Climate Declaration and the Prince of Wales’ Corporate Leaders Group Trillion Tonne Communique. HFCs, ... Read more »

Keystone Could Spike CO2, Oil Demand

August 12, 2014August 11, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Keystone XL pipeline could produce four times more greenhouse gas emissions than the State Department’s original estimate, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change. The new estimates, from scientists at the Stockholm Environment Institute, use different calculations about oil consumption; the authors say the pipeline’s increased supplies ... Read more »

Algae Companies Ask EPA to Endorse Carbon Capture Efforts

August 12, 2014August 11, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Algae companies ready to bring their carbon capture and utilization efforts to the marketplace are asking the EPA to support the technology as a viable alternative to carbon capture and sequestration in its carbon pollution regulations, according to Environment & Energy Publishing. Algae companies need a large, constant amount of ... Read more »

NRG Invests $0.5bn to Cut Carbon Pollution

August 11, 2014August 11, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

NRG Energy is investing more than half a billion dollars by 2016 to cut carbon pollution from its four coal-fired power plants in Illinois. The improvements will achieve 56 percent of Illinois’ statewide CO2 reductions called for under President Obama’s proposed carbon pollution standards, the company says. The Illinois efforts ... Read more »

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