New Scientist

JULY 4, 2024

A start-up in Albania co-founded by a mining industry mogul is farming plants to harvest carbon-neutral nickel from the soil while simultaneously removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 23, 2023

Up to 50,000 tons of carbon dioxide yearly could be saved by replacing 1,000 existing diesel trucks with their electric counterparts.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Wind energy produces roughly only 11 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour (g CO2/kWh) of electricity generated. Fewer emissions equal less carbon warming our climate and cleaner air for people and wildlife. In contrast, emissions from natural gas produce roughly 465 (g CO2/kWh)—more than 40 times higher.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The future of electric power in New England, or at least a piece of it, is the subject of a highly contested referendum in Maine. It asks whether Maine voters want “to ban the construction of high-impact electric transmission lines in the Upper Kennebec Region.”. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 28, 2021.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

Utilities can use this energy to power their own treatment works, or they can sell it back to the grid as renewable natural gas (RNG) or electricity. By generating its own energy, the facility cuts its electricity bill, or even turns a profit by selling the surplus. Decades of energy policy decisions have left the U.S. How It Works.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Solar panels generated almost 4 percent of electricity in the US in 2021, up from less than 1 percent in 2015. In some places that number is much higher; for example, 17% of California’s electricity generation came from solar in 2021. Even more encouraging, by 2030, the solar industry aims to generate nearly a third of US electricity.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

Assessments by the IPCC have made clear that the most feasible way for the world to meet its target of restricting climate change to below two degrees Celsius of warming includes rapid and massive expansion of carbon removal technology – technology that would extract carbon dioxide and permanently sequester that carbon dioxide underground.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Perhaps the most controversial portion of the bill changes the mechanism for setting electricity rates. By the end of next year, the commission must to develop a plan for reaching these goals involving the “least cost path.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

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. EN: What needs to be done to make the electric grid more equitable—and reliable?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2024

Using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen does not by itself render produced hydrogen “clean.” The electricity powering that electrolyzer must also be clean, as verified by adherence to the three-pillars framework of incrementality, deliverability, and time-matching. This is sometimes referred to as “grey” hydrogen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Their study examined the carbon dioxide and methane emissions from these companies’ products, as well as from the extraction and production processes of the largest gas, oil and coal producers and cement manufacturers. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Replacing petroleum with renewable electricity as the primary source of transportation energy will leave us all much better off. New technologies are not necessary to meet the carbon reduction targets needed to achieve net-zero emissions in 2050.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 6, 2022

by John DeCicco, University of Michigan Replacing petroleum fuels with electricity is crucial for curbing climate change because it cuts carbon dioxide emissions from transportation – the largest source of U.S. global warming emissions and a growing source worldwide.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A more sustainable option gaining steam is the use of electrolyzers, devices that instead use electricity to convert raw materials like carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful molecules for chemicals and products. Traditional chemical manufacturing relies on non-renewable fossil energy sources for power and raw materials.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

According to The Global Carbon Project , approximately 36.6 billion global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 came from fossil fuel use. Despite these substantial investments, a staggering 70% of the population still lacks access to electricity. billion tons of the 40.5

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Several companies are beginning to scale up production of jet fuel made from captured carbon dioxide and green hydrogen, but decarbonising global aviation this way would require huge amounts of clean energy

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) , equivalent to 5.2 million homes’ electricity use for a year! (CNRL) , he stands at the helm of one of Canada’s largest oil producers, all while raking in profits like there’s no tomorrow—quite literally, as the future looks increasingly bleak for our planet.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Rethinking a century-old chemical reaction could jump-start the production of cleaner jet fuel made from captured carbon dioxide and clean electricity

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

To date, most stakeholder engagement has focused on the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting framework required to accurately report the carbon intensity of electrolytically produced hydrogen, or hydrogen generated by using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

Chemical synthesis is responsible for the significant emission of carbon dioxide worldwide. Using renewable electricity to drive chemical synthesis may provide a route to overcoming these challenges, enabling synthetic routes that operate at benign conditions and utilize sustainable inputs.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Nationwide, diesel-powered school buses produce more than 5 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. … Continue reading Electric school buses are taking students back to school – bringing cleaner air and lower maintenance costs to school districts across the country.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Solar Foods will grow bacteria using carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen produced by renewable energy, a process more efficient than growing plants

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This hotly contested referendum is focused on the future of electric power in the region. The electric company Central Maine Power got its state and federal permits and began construction on a high-voltage transmission line called New England Clean Energy Connect. The state of Maine also has a ballot measure linked to water.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

But what happens when we achieve the goal of zero carbon dioxide emissions from human actions? It turns out this is a critical question for understanding what carbon budgets we have in terms of emissions, if we seek to meet temperature thresholds like 2 degrees Celsius.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Kutscher, University of Colorado Boulder and Jeffrey Logan, University of Colorado Boulder In the summer of 1988, scientist James Hansen testified to Congress that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was dangerously warming the planet. by Charles F.

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Scientific American

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A team of scientists has figured out how to convert planet-warming carbon dioxide into a harmless powdery fuel that could be converted into clean electricity

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Tandem Routes for Converting Carbon Dioxide to High-Value Hydrocarbons: The Roads to Renewable Chemicals and Fuels. link] Abstract Upgrading CO2 into multicarbon products (C2+) through electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (eCO2RR) with renewable electricity offers a practical solution to construct a net-zero society.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

However, on the narrow but important issue of carbon dioxide emissions, an acre of solar panels appears to offset more emissions each year than an acre planted with trees can sequester. metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. What about the carbon that is released when an acre of forest is removed?

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

The social cost of carbon is an estimate of the harm done by one additional ton of carbon dioxide. The earliest government estimate of the social cost of carbon was for 2010: $21/ton with a 3% discount rate and $35 at a 2.5% That would have been equivalent to eliminating all emissions for six months of Bush’s term.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 1, 2024

A startup is zapping seawater with electricity to extract and store away carbon, but scientists remain skeptical. By Kiley Price The ocean is quite literally a massive sink for carbon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

This would have enabled the CAISO to expand its operations into the rest of the west as a regional transmission organization (RTO), an independent entity that plans and operates the electricity grid. The list goes on, but you get the point. The 2018 bill did not pass, but the idea never faded. billion dollars since the market began.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

Solar panels do not emit carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides, or other harmful air pollutants when theyre working. Community solar will grow Pennsylvanias capacity to get energy from the sun, which will improve air quality and reduce our reliance on more polluting energy sources, said Alice Lu, Policy Analyst at Clean Air Council.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 31, 2023

Electric utilities are likely responsible for the nation’s higher than expected emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, a greenhouse gas 25,000 times worse for the climate than carbon dioxide. By Phil McKenna While emissions of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), the world’s most potent greenhouse gas, have fallen sharply in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

For example, Hurricane Laura (2020) resulted in a two-week disruption at the Sabine Pass LNG export facility but well over a month at Cameron LNG, the latter of which was sidelined by an accumulation of incidents, including to external supplies of electricity as well as required repairs and dredging to the associated shipping channel.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2021

By Jennifer Matthews, Penn State News A new, environmentally friendly, single-step process has been developed to convert carbon dioxide into higher hydrocarbons using plasma, according to scientists and engineers. Finding a better way to convert waste carbon dioxide under mild conditions remains a major challenge in catalysis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. All four oil majors publicly claim to support the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That’s the gravy train the supermajors should ride.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A quick glance at the latest data from CARB shows there are three large and growing sources of credits: bio-based diesel, biomethane and electricity. Bio-based diesel, biomethane and electricity are the largest and fastest growing sources of LCFS credits in recent years. Source California Air Resources Board.

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