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Beyond troubled waters? Unprecedented cross-border transportation and injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) for offshore storage shows promise

Law Columbia

March 8, 2023, marked the start of the demonstration phase of Project Greensand , shipping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from Belgium for storage in a depleted oilfield in the North Sea off the coast of Denmark. This amendment was adopted at the 2009 Conference of the Parties to the LP. It enables the provisional (i.e.,

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Earth System Interventions for Sustainability

Legal Planet

By 2009, environmental challenges–especially climate change–were severe enough that humans have obligations to understand how technologies can help overcome them and to use these technologies, as appropriate. Some of these appear both feasible and necessary to achieve important sustainability and human welfare objectives.

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EPA Issues Final Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding

The Energy Law

By Stephen Wiegand On December 15, 2009, EPA published in the Federal Register its final endangerment findings with respect to greenhouse gases. 15, 2009) [[link] This rulemaking is a response to Massachusetts v. Many view the existing Clean Air Act as ill-suited to the regulation of greenhouse gases. See 74 Fed.

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Proposed EPA Rules Would Subject Oil and Gas Sources to Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Energy Law

By Stepehen Wiegand In October 2009, EPA promulgated the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule. The proposed rules would require the reporting of fugitive and vented methane and carbon dioxide emissions, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide combustion emissions from flares.

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Sen. Yaw To Introduce Bill Promoting Carbon Capture, Utilization And Sequestration

PA Environment Daily

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Majority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, is circulating a co-sponsor memo asking his colleagues to sponsor the Pennsylvania Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide Act. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide underground.

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EPA Announces January 2011 as Likely Date for Regulation of Greenhouse Gases Under PSD Program

The Energy Law

By Stephen Wiegand EPA recently announced its position regarding the timing of the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act’s Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Program. However, pollutants such as carbon dioxide, for which EPA regulations only require monitoring and reporting, are not subject to PSD permitting.

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Susannah Pierce: A Climate Villain Painting Big Oil Green

Enviromental Defense

Just days before the conference she was featured in an article where she attempted to shift blame away from the fossil fuel industry by saying that oil companies can only decarbonize as fast as the rest of the economy – a comment that completely ignores the fact that the oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.