Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

1. Montana-Saskatchewan climate project shelved (AP)
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AP - Money troubles have stalled indefinitely a proposal to capture carbon dioxide emissions from a Canadian coal plant and store the gas underground in Montana — a largely unproven concept considered ...

2. Germany agrees draft carbon storage law (AFP)
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AFP - The underground storage of carbon dioxide emissions could be a reality in Germany from 2017, after Berlin agreed a draft law Wednesday to regulate the carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. ...

3. EPA issues greenhouse gas reporting requirements for coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems, industrial landfills, and magnesium production facilities
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...  Methane is the primary GHG emitted from coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems and industrial landfills and is more than 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide ...

4. The aerosols conundrum
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... the global-warming debate because it sheds light on the uncertainties of climate sensitivity, which is the term the IPCC uses to describe the change that a doubling of carbon dioxide would have on global ...

5. EPA issues greenhouse gas reporting requirements for coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems, industrial landfills, and magnesium production facilities
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...  Methane is the primary GHG emitted from coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems and industrial landfills and is more than 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide ...

6. Biologist Warns Of Danger From Rising Sea Levels
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In his new book, Flooded Earth, Peter D. Ward argues that even if humans stopped all carbon dioxide emissions today, the oceans will still rise up to 3 feet by 2050, wreaking havoc on many coastal cities ...

7. Wind Integration: Does It Reduce Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
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Many claim that wind generation is beneficial because it reduces pollution emissions and does not emit carbon dioxide.  This isn’t necessarily the case. The following article explains a phenomena called ...

8. Synthetic Fuel from CO2 and Solar Energy?
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... with the help of solar panels. The goal is that this will help considerably reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Conversion goals: The team [...] Posted in: Biofuels, Environment, Solar Power  ...

9. EIA: Renewable Energy to Grow Rapidly Over the Next 28 Years
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... will also continue to rise, causing a 43% increase in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. ...

10. EIA: U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions Declined 7% in 2009
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A 2.4% decline in U.S. gross domestic product in 2009, with bigger impacts on energy-intensive industries, contributed to a 7% drop in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, according to DOE's Energy ...

11. Amtrak Tests Beef Byproducts as Biofuel (LiveScience.com)
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... carbon dioxide emissions and dependence on foreign oil. ...

12. Sigourney Weaver urges action to protect oceans (AP)
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AP - Actress Sigourney Weaver is making her second trip to Congress in as many weeks, urging lawmakers to help oceans by reducing carbon dioxide emissions.  ...

13. EPA Finalizes the 2008 National U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory
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... is attributed to a decrease in carbon dioxide emissions associated with fuel and electricity consumption. An emissions inventory that identifies and quantifies a country's primary ...

14. Senate climate bill to be unveiled April 26 (Reuters)
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Reuters - A long-awaited compromise bill to reduce U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming will be unveiled by a group of senators on April 26, sources said on Thursday. ...

15. Ships at Sea and What is Fair
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Ships are responsible for 2.7% of world carbon dioxide emissions. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) estimates that these emissions could increase by 150-250% by the year 2050 in line with the ...

16. Poland sells 30 million euros of CO2 quotas to Japan: report (AFP)
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AFP - Poland has sold a Japanese private sector entity carbon dioxide emission quotas worth 30 million euros (40 million dollars), Poland's environment minister said.  ...

17. Secretary Chu Announces More Stringent Appliance Standards for Home Water Heaters and Other Heating Products
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... consumers up to $10 billion and prevent up to 164 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions over 30 years. ...

18. Ships at Sea and What is Fair
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Ships are responsible for 2.7% of world carbon dioxide emissions. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) estimates that these emissions could increase by 150-250% by the year 2050 in line with the ...

19. Charting a course toward cleaner cars
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... destruction of rainforest, and thus loss of an important absorber of atmospheric carbon dioxide. And although electric vehicles emit no tailpipe emissions, recharging their batteries may increase electricity ...

20. Used CO2
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Process improvements can reduce Carbon Dioxide (CO2) air emissions. When that is done there can be left over permitted CO2 air emissions that can be sold to other users. In doing so a certain percentage ...

21. Deal nearing on Senate climate bill
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... U.S. industry to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases associated with global warming. ...

22. California Caps SF6 Emissions for Utilities
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... is the most potent of all greenhouse gases which contribute to climate change. SF6 is approximately 23,900 times as potent as carbon dioxide, the world’s most prevalent greenhouse ...

23. Explained: Climate sensitivity
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... the relationship between the human-caused emissions that add to the Earth’s greenhouse effect — carbon dioxide and a variety of other greenhouse gases — and the temperature changes that will result from ...

24. Deal nearing on Senate climate bill
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... U.S. industry to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases associated with global warming. ...

25. Global Trade’s Dirty Secret: Outsourced Emissions
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The Carnegie Institution of Science released a new study this week finding that one-third of the carbon dioxide emissions developed countries release into the atmosphere result from goods and services ...

26. China tells US to do more on climate change (AP)
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AP - China told the United States on Wednesday to make stronger commitments on climate change and provide environmental expertise and financing to developing nations.

27. House members seek to block EPA carbon limits
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... way to overturn Environmental Protection Agency proposals to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming. ...

28. EPA to Phase in CO2 emissions permits/BACT for mid-sized sources
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The Obama administration will give small businesses a break on coming carbon dioxide emissions rules but big emitters like coal-fired power plants will face a crack-down, U.S. Environmental Protection ...

29. House members seek to block EPA carbon limits
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... way to overturn Environmental Protection Agency proposals to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming. ...

30. Methane Causes Vicious Cycle In Global Warming
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Carbon dioxide usually gets most of the blame for global warming, but a dramatic increase in methane gas emissions is worrying scientists. Global warming is causing the world's wetlands to produce more ...