Clean Power Plan: Utility Industry Says It Will Do The ‘Right Thing’ Despite their disparate interests and diverse geographies, U.S. utilities have locked shoulders, especially when it comes to federal energy policies. At the core of their communique is the will to work with the Obama administration to reduce carbon emissions. At the Edison Electric … Continue reading Clean Power Plan: Utility Industry Says It Will Do The ‘Right Thing’→
DC Court Throws Out the First Challenge to the Clean Power Plan The Obama administration’s historic initiative to curb greenhouse gas pollution from existing power plants survived its first legal attack yesterday, but also got some harsh criticism from utility industry executives. A federal court of appeals in Washington dismissed a case brought by more … Continue reading DC Court Throws Out the First Challenge to the Clean Power Plan #CPP→
Corporations Are Going Green by Linking Executive Pay to Energy and Emissions Targets Back in 2005, when GE chief executive Jeff Immelt launched Ecomagination, an initiative to pedal plant-friendly technologies to the market, he famously quipped “green is green.” But despite Mr. Immelt’s pitch, the conventional wisdom has stubbornly remained that what’s good for the … Continue reading Corporations Are Going Green by Linking Executive Pay to Energy and Emissions Targets→
The Case for Carbon Capture Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) has been identified as crucial in the efforts to reign in CO2 emissions that are causing climate change by leading agencies such as the UN IPCC, the International Energy Agency and the World Bank. But CCS, the process of physically capturing CO2 emissions from industrial … Continue reading The Case for Carbon Capture #CCS→
Kansas enacts oversight law for EPA CO2 plan Washington, 1 June (Argus) — Kansas governor Sam Brownback (R) signed a bill setting parameters for how the state complies with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Clean Power Plan. The bill, HB 2233, requires state agencies responsible for drafting a state implementation plan (SIP) to … Continue reading Kansas enacts oversight law for EPA CO2 plan→
Statoil Wants to Pay for CO2 Emissions Six of Europe’s oil and gas companies, including Norwegian giant Statoil, will pay for CO2 emissions and ask the world’s politicians and the UN to determine a price. In a joint press release which NRK published, senior managers at Statoil, BG Group, BP, Shell, Total and ENI ask … Continue reading Statoil Wants to Pay for CO2 Emissions→
What Causes Global Warming? Droughts, lengthy hot spells, heavy downpours, floods, and other extreme weather events are occurring more frequently and intensely every year. Around the world, research teams are analyzing these trends, noting the changes in temperature, rainfall, ice mass, sea level, and many other variables recorded by weather measuring devices. The trends are … Continue reading What Causes #Global_Warming?→
Big Question About Industry’s Newest Climate EffortEurope’s largest oil companies are reportedly working together on a policy strategy leading up to this year’s international climate talks in Paris. It’s nice to hear that some of the biggest players in the global oil and gas industry want to engage in solutions, but it remains to be … Continue reading Big Question About Industry’s Newest #Climate Effort→
Climate benefits of a natural gas bridge ‘unlikely to be significant’ Natural gas can only be a worthwhile bridge to a low carbon future if a series of tough conditions are met, according to a working paper from the influential New Climate Economy initiative. The paper says the climate benefits of gas, including shale gas, … Continue reading Climate benefits of a natural gas bridge ‘unlikely to be significant’→
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