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Sprinkling basalt over soil could remove huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Physics World

Sprinkling powered basalt over natural ecosystems would remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere while also improving soils. But even in best case scenarios for renewable energy and industrial decarbonization, it looks certain that significant carbon dioxide emissions will continue for decades.

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Wetland Protections Remain Bogged Down in Mystery 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Alito famously said that carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning, a key contributor to global warming, is not a pollutant. That is despite studies tying carbon dioxide to skyrocketing rates of childhood asthma. There is evidence linking elevated carbon dioxide to longer pollen seasons.

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Has Gasoline Use in California Peaked?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Gasoline consumption is down by more than two billion gallons per year since 2017, when 15.6 Burning gasoline in an automobile produces carbon dioxide, the primary cause of climate change. pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per gallon. billion gallons were sold in the state.

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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) , equivalent to 5.2 In 2017 he shared his yacht with the interim leader of the Conservative Party, Rona Ambrose, for her vacation around the Caribbean. Under his leadership, CNRL has been linked to staggering annual emissions of 26.34

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Electrification and decarbonization of chemical synthesis

Physics World

Chemical synthesis is responsible for the significant emission of carbon dioxide worldwide. We are developing an electrosynthetic toolkit in which distributed feedstocks, including carbon dioxide, dinitrogen, water and renewable electricity can be converted into diverse fuels, chemicals and materials. Join the audience.

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North Dakota Supreme Court to Hear Case on Pore Space Rights

Energy & the Law

Denbury Resources determined in 2017 that subterranean pore spaces are owned by the landowner. North Dakota is a promising area for carbon dioxide injection. Incidentally, the court in Mosser v. Disputes involving pore space are likely to continue in North Dakota given increased oil and gas activity.

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Ask a Scientist: Gas Plants Disproportionately Harm Marginalized Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. Its primary component is methane.