The ongoing quest to lower carbon emissions has shown some promising progress with the processes of capture & store, direct air capture of carbon, and the development of SynFuels that use captured CO2 to create fuel**
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Carbon Capture & Store - New Approaches to Climate Change
Posted by Ed Burke on Aug 14, 2019 10:14:29 AM
Topics: Climate Change, Carbon Emissions
Air Conditioning Goes Global - but Environmental Cost Could Be High
Posted by Ed Burke on Aug 15, 2017 9:05:00 AM
Topics: Oil & Energy Magazine, Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Air conditioning, HFCs, Montreal Protocol, Kigali Amendment
A comprehensive state by state analysis of 5 specific threats: wildfire, extreme heat, drought, inland flooding and coastal flooding by Climate Change Central and ICF International has ranked New England states in order of preparedness. Once again, Massachusetts comes in on top.
Topics: Oil & Energy Magazine, Climate Change
Senate Strikes Down Clean Power Provisions Ahead Climate Change Summit
Posted by Ed Burke on Nov 18, 2015 4:24:41 PM
Topics: EPA, Climate Change, obama, clean power plan
Ahead of the Climate Change Summit, Here's Where We Are on Regulations
Posted by Ed Burke on Nov 16, 2015 2:39:21 PM
Despite the horrific ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris this past weekend and the fact that France will still officially be in a State of Emergency, as declared by French President Hollande, the Global Climate Change Council Meeting is still slated to take place in Paris on November 20th.
Topics: EPA, Climate Change
TransCanada/White House Standoff Begins Ahead of Climate Change Summit
Posted by Ed Burke on Nov 4, 2015 1:24:28 PM
In a surprise move Monday, TransCanada issued a request to the U.S. State Department that they pause the ongoing review of the project until the legal challenges in Nebraska are settled. (Interestingly and somewhat ironically, this is the exact same reason Secretary of State John Kerry gave for why the review was taking so long when asked last year.)
Topics: Keystone XL, TransCanada, Climate Change, obama
Topics: Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion, Fracking, Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Emissions
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