Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2024

A new report published today by the Sabin Center examines the laws governing international transport of carbon dioxide for sequestration. We focus, specifically, on the shipping of carbon dioxide that was captured in Europe to the United States for sequestration there.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

How do biomethane, lifecycle carbon accounting, and the tax credit interact? Biogas is the direct product of anaerobic digestion, primarily comprised of a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide, plus much smaller amounts of other gases.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 2, 2024

Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal © 2023 by Ocean Visions Ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is attracting increased attention as a possible climate change response strategy. ocean alkalinity enhancement ) theoretically able to remove 1 gigaton or more of carbon dioxide annually. degrees Celsius.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2024

This would be a disastrous outcome, wasting time and money we do not have in the pressing fight to turn the tide on climate. Moreover, it would erode public trust and undermine the ability of the clean energy transition to deliver truly clean —not just carbon-free—solutions. This is sometimes referred to as “grey” hydrogen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

US agriculture is not just a victim, but a contributor The raising of crops and livestock is the largest emitter of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane in the US food system.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) , equivalent to 5.2 (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. million homes’ electricity use for a year!

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, estimated to be 80 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide but not as long lasting. But people need to see things. You can’t just tell people about things. They won’t listen.”

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. The closest we’ve ever come to a carbon tax is a limited fee on methane emissions under the new IRA law. I want to talk about some options for using the tax system to change that.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Both the LC and LP require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea. It is not hard to see why.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 20, 2022

Climatetech company Mote is establishing its first facility to convert wood waste into hydrogen fuel while capturing, utilizing, and sequestering carbon dioxide emissions resulting from its process.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

They discovered that injecting high-pressure carbon dioxide into aging oil wells could extract more oil that otherwise they would have had to leave behind. In fact, most of the (small amount of) carbon dioxide being captured is used for EOR, i.e. MORE oil production. This is called enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Sabin Center today released the second in a series of white papers discussing legal issues associated with different ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques. the growing of kelp and other macroalgae which may be harvested for food, bioenergy, or other uses or sunk in the ocean to sequester the carbon it contains.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Still, over their lifetimes, solar panels emit 25 times less carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt hour than coal-powered electricity. How can we recycle solar panel materials and create a lower-waste circular supply chain? Chemistry break! Which countries are driving PV material mining and PV manufacturing? Here’s How.

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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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Physics World

MARCH 10, 2022

According to the International Energy Agency, the chemical production sector is the single largest industrial consumer of oil and gas and the third-largest carbon emitter, putting out just short of a gigatonne of carbon dioxide emissions in 2020. kg of carbon dioxide, respectively. kg and 1.85 kg and 1.17

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted. New science has shown that the largest fossil fuel, dairy, and waste methane super-emitters contribute a sizeable fraction of the total methane emissions in the regions the study authors monitored.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 9, 2023

Running Tide, a carbon-removal company in the US, has sunk more than 10,000 tonnes of waste wood into the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere – but experts aren't convinced it will work

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Researchers engineered a strain of bacteria to break down carbon dioxide (CO2), converting it into commonly used, expensive industrial chemicals. The carbon-negative approach removes CO2 from the atmosphere and bypasses using fossil fuels to generate these chemicals. Read the full story from Northwestern University.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 8, 2025

Approves Solar Energy Facility In Blair County -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: New Federal Clean Energy Rebates In Limbo For Residents Of PA, DE, NJ -- Reminder: Center For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training Hosts Jan.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 22, 2023

Carbon Down Under, a team of graduate students from the Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, is liquifying and burying carbon dioxide to fight climate change. Plants naturally absorb carbon dioxide – and it is still captured and stored within human-created waste of that plant material.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

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. on the Export of Carbon Dioxide Streams for Disposal in Sub-Seabed Geological Formations for the Purpose of Sequestration.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 15, 2022

Researchers at the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (ICReDD) at Hokkaido University have formulated a technique that has the potential to assist in the recycling of waste carbon dioxide (CO2) while also creating molecules beneficial for drug development. Read more →

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Nanotech

MARCH 5, 2024

Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced on February 13, 2024, their intent to issue funding to support research and development (R&D) projects for converting algae and other wet waste feedstocks to low-carbon fuels, chemicals, and agricultural products.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 22, 2022

Researchers have developed an efficient concept to turn carbon dioxide into clean, sustainable fuels, without any unwanted by-products or waste. Read the full story from the University of Cambridge.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Zero-emission energy systems have a gigaton-sized challenge: Waste carbon dioxide (CO2) will continue to flow into the atmosphere as long as steel, cement, and chemical plants exist.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2024

Concern: Toxic waste The landfill would receive all kinds of waste, including organic waste, blue box recycling and up to 500 tonnes of asbestos per day, much of which will be transported in from the Greater Toronto Area. However, what enters a landfill doesn’t necessarily remain there.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 14, 2023

Our new city offered curbside composting, and ever since then we’ve been separating eggshells, coffee grounds and other food items from the rest of our household waste. But the change has underscored just how much of our waste stream was previously going into landfills. Unfortunately, a lot of organic waste ends up in landfills.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. Biomass and municipal waste. Then with municipal solid waste, you’re solving a waste problem and turning it into energy.”.

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NRDC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Food decomposing in landfills generates methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times as powerful as carbon dioxide in the. Food is the most prevalent material disposed in municipal landfills and incinerators in the U.S., amounting to 24 percent of landfill contents.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2024

beneficial use of coal ash waste permit for a project to construct a direct air capture of carbon dioxide facility at the Scrubgrass waste coal power plant located in Scrubgrass Township, Venango County. ( Read more here. A 60 day comment period is now open. Read the entire PA Bulletin notice for more information. (

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

The process is a win-win for systems that can afford the upfront costs of these waste-to-energy technologies. Wastewater-to-energy systems start with a process called anaerobic digestion, which treatment plants have long used to reduce the volume of sewage waste. Using biogas for energy is not carbon neutral.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 28, 2022

Enhanced Recovery: Use of carbon dioxide for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery requires the creation of a unit by the Commissioner of Conservation for the purpose of secondary or tertiary recovery under La. Rather, it is the approval to use a specific reservoir for injection and storage of carbon dioxide. 30:5(C).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

for air quality, waste, and oil and gas violations related to the uncontrolled gas release from Equitrans’ Rager Mountain natural gas storage field and George L Reade 1 storage well in November 2022. The impact of methane is over 25 times greater than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

“We encourage everyone to find ways to reduce their waste, reuse materials, recycle what they can, and properly dispose of what they must.” Because of recycling, nearly 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions are avoided every year, or the equivalent of removing 2.15

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANC) v. UARG involved a regulation that required industry to cut carbon emissions for new facilities. EPA said that it applied to power plants that emitted a lot of carbon dioxide but not much of other air pollutants. Army Corps of Engineers.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

Methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is roughly 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, fuels extreme weather across the country by trapping heat in the atmosphere. These pipelines run through many of our neighborhoods, exposing us and our loved ones to methane pollution.

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