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Carbon Capture

400 PPM: Can Artificial Trees Help Pull CO2 from the Air?: Scientific American

... to reduce CO2 the cheapest industrial way: cut greenhouse gas pollution from the biggest, most concentrated sources, such as coal-fired power plants or oil refineries. Placing carbon capture at these industrial facilities is significantly cheaper than general air capture and reduces emissions from the single largest sources of CO2. As Princeton University mechanical engineer Robert ...

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Climate Change

Obama Greenhouse Gas Regulations Could Face U.S. Supreme Court Challenge

... WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other industry groups, along with states such as Texas and Virginia, have filed nine petitions in recent weeks asking the ...

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Solar

China says EU solar duties to seriously harm trade ties | Reuters

... BEIJING May 16 (Reuters) - China warned the European Union on Thursday that imposing duties on Chinese solar panels would "seriously harm" bilateral trade ties, upping the tone of its criticism a week after the EU said it would move ahead with hefty penalties in June. The European Commission has agreed to impose average import duties of 47 percent on solar panels from China, according to ...

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Nuclear

Senate confirms physicist Moniz as energy chief - Yahoo! News

... had delayed a vote on Moniz for several weeks. Graham was protesting Obama's plan to cut about $200 million from a South Carolina project to turn weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear reactors. Graham and other GOP lawmakers said the plan jeopardized a plant being built at the Savannah River nuclear site. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden is chairman of the Senate Energy Committee . He calls ...

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Hydroelectric

Brazil's Eletrobras posts $17.8 million quarterly loss | Reuters

... formally called Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA, had posted a year-earlier net profit of 1.27 billion reais. Eletrobras agreed in December to a government plan to renew expiring hydroelectric dam concessions in exchange for electricity rate cuts of between 18 percent and 32 percent. Accounting adjustments for the new concession terms had led the company to post a net loss of 10.5 ...

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Coal

North America has enough summer power, but Texas problem possible | Reuters

... and the West, that it was expecting an active hurricane season this summer, and that it was keeping an eye on increasing dependence on natural gas to fuel power plants across the country as coal units retire. (Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick, Chris Reese and Jim Marshall) ...

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Oil

Spate of recent shock departures by 50-something CEOs | Business | guardian.co.uk

... On approaching his 60th birthday this year, long-serving Tullow Oil boss Aidan Heavey told staff he felt "like two 30-year-olds". A handful of recent shock departures by 50-something chief executives at European blue chip companies none of them under any obvious pressure to quit suggest some of his peers either lack that vigour, or want to channel it elsewhere. Peter Voser is giving up one ...

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Gas

Interior issues new drilling rule on public land - Yahoo! Finance

... WASHINGTON (AP) -- Companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands will be required to disclose publicly the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations, the Obama administration said Thursday. The new "fracking" rule replaces a draft proposed last year that was withdrawn amid industry complaints that federal regulation could hinder an ongoing boom in natural gas ...

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Wind

COLUMN-Solar power costs closing in on wind: Wynn | Reuters

... cheaper than wind turbines for the first time last year in certain markets, per unit of capacity, and are rapidly closing a remaining gap in the full cost of power generation. Until now, wind power has been the leading low-carbon alternative to oil, coal and gas, outside large niche markets such as Germany, which has seen a huge ramp-up in installed solar. But that could change, with deep ...

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Geothermal

Funnell: Survey will lead to CSG - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

... to mining but companies may use the data for further exploration. "It can help with the assessment of water resources, understanding how the Australian continent was formed and identify geothermal energy resources and mineral deposits." Mr Mallard says there've been no adverse reactions to the planned survey that he's aware of. "We don't issue mining leases, these are done by the ...

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Biofuels

EXCLUSIVE-Hungarian ethanol firm says it alerted EU over Platts pricing | Reuters

... concerned that the three companies - Royal Dutch Shell PLC, BP PLC and Statoil ASA - may have colluded in reporting distorted prices to Platts to manipulate published assessments for oil and biofuel products. Authorities conducted surprise searches of those companies a day ago and visited the offices of Platts, a unit of U.S. publisher McGraw Hill, which said it is cooperating in the probe. ...

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Green Energy

David_Goldstein: A Daughter's Tears: The President's Speech

... every American citizen. In this way, we will minimize government bureaucracy and studies show that most Americans will come out ahead even given the initially higher costs of the newer green energy sources. Speaking of the fossil fuel industries, an integral component of the Green Patriot Program will be the First-In-Line program. As we make the necessary transition to low carbon and non-carb ...

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Renewable Energy

Marine Energy Breakthrough: New Technology Multiplies Potential | Renewable Energy News Article

... Marine energy is the 'best of the best' amongst green energy sources: it has the greatest potential (in theory, the planet's oceans could supply the entire world with renewable energy), tidal and ocean current power plants are under water and therefore completely invisible, they produce electricity from 100 percent renewable energy sources (the water in the globe's oceans will always move ...

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Alternative Energy

Ten Economic Risks of Fossil Fuels | Alternative Energy Stocks

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Carbon Credits

CF Partners put on spot over 140m Barclays claim - Telegraph

... the bank to help finance its own bid. Mr Justice Hildyard did not appear convinced and went on to ask whether it was the sharing of that information and CF’s experience with carbon credits "that you say is confidential". He added: "I am trying to fix in my mind exactly what the confidential information is." The judge asked similar questions over Mr Lord’s claim that ...

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