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12 Countries Agree to Carbon Capture Actions; IEA Urges Aggressive Policies

April 8, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Energy secretaries from the U.S., U.K. and ten other countries have agreed to accelerate the development of carbon capture projects, at the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting in Abu Dhabi. Ministers from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Norway, South Africa, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates also joined the ... Read more »

Google Trials Plug-Free Electric Vehicle Charging; Invests in “Carbon Negative” Biofuels

March 22, 2011March 22, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Google is trialing the Plugless Power electric vehicle charging station at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. The search company will host the first public release of the charging station developed and manufactured by Evatran LLC. The station is based on inductive technology, and charges electric vehicles and extended-range hybrids without ... Read more »

Obama Calls for ‘Clean’ Energy Mandate, End to Oil Tax Breaks

January 26, 2011October 18, 2016 by Tamar Wilner

President Obama has confounded many pundits by making energy policy a significant part of his State of the Union address. In the speech Tuesday night, Obama called for an end to tax breaks for oil and gas, and a redirection of those funds to renewable energy. “We need to get ... Read more »

Leveraging Resources, or Future Planning for Future Rewards

January 10, 2011 by David Dornfeld

A number of items passing across my computer screen (or my ears from the radio) have prompted an additional posting on “leveraging” following our last blog on leveraging manufacturing. These are, in no particular order, the continuing development of the Chinese high speed rail network (as reported on NPR recently), ... Read more »

EPA Finalizes Two Carbon Rules to Protect Drinking Water

November 23, 2010October 18, 2016 by Gina Roos

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized two rules — related to the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide — to protect drinking-water supplies from future efforts to capture and store carbon from coal-fired power plants, reports Bloomberg. The new rules aim to protect drinking water and to track ... Read more »

Energy Tax Incentive Legislation Targets Building, Industrial Energy Efficiency

October 1, 2010October 18, 2016 by Environmental Leader

Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) teamed up on Wednesday to introduce legislation providing tax incentives to the energy sector, The Hill reports. The bill, the Advanced Energy Tax Incentive Act of 2010, focuses on building and industrial energy efficiency, domestic manufacturing, emerging clean ... Read more »

Employee Engagement and Climate Change

September 21, 2010September 29, 2010 by Rachel Mountain

When organizations think about designing a suitable sustainability or carbon management strategy, more often than not the primary emphasis is placed on the external communication of these initiatives. Whilst no one is denying that external stakeholder audiences, especially customers, are important groups for tailored communications, companies should also be focusing ... Read more »

The State of Maine: Efforts to Sell Carbon Credits Obtained from Weatherization

August 25, 2010September 13, 2010 by Tricia Foley

Like many corporate entities and governmental bodies, Maine has enthusiastically embraced the movement to limit, reduce, or remove greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions from the environment. Section 576, Title 38 of the Maine Revised Statutes lays the foundation for Maine’s GHG goals, which includes the reduction of GHG emissions to 10% ... Read more »

CCS Technologies to Capture 65% and 90% of CO2 Emissions at Coal Power Plants

July 28, 2010 by Gina Roos

A proposed clean coal power plant in Illinois is expected to capture at least 65 percent of its carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions with carbon capture and storage (CCS), while a pilot CCS project at a conventional coal power plant will capture about 90 percent of CO2 emissions. In Illinois, Tenaska has ... Read more »

Roundup – NYC, Siemens, DHL, Artesian

July 22, 2010 by Paul Nastu

Cork, Plastic, or Screwtop? The Cork Industry Tightens the Screws on the Wine Industry Triple Pundit New York Mandates Cleaner Heating Oil NY Times Siemens lands $8.9 million DOE grant for carbon capture Smart Planet Carbon-cutting tech: Key is to distinguish ‘possible’ from ‘viable’ Greenbang Influence of electric vehicles already ... Read more »

Repsol Sustainability Report: Missed CO2 Reduction Target by 13%

June 28, 2010April 23, 2013 by Paul Nastu

Repsol reduced CO2 equivalent emissions by 204,334 metric tons in 2009, missing its target of 235,000 metric tons by 13 percent, according to the company’s annual sustainability report. In absolute terms, the company has cut CO2 equivalent emissions to 24.701 million metric tons, a 4.7 percent reduction from its 2005 ... Read more »

LanzaTech to Produce Fuel from Baosteel CO

June 22, 2010June 26, 2010 by Paul Nastu

LanzaTech announced that it will partner with Chinese steel manufacturer Baosteel on a project to convert its carbon monoxide (CO) emissions into ethanol, according to a company press release. A partnership between Baosteel and LanzaTech and a three way research alliance between Baosteel, CAS Bureau of Life Science and Technology ... Read more »

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