Articles include: Exxon & carbon capture; offshore wind; glaciers melting in the Andes; coal financing; cities hardest hit by climate change; Biden trying to reinstate US climate change leadership; shrinking sea meadows and GHGs; Canadian budget; Euro lawsuits derail clean energy; DOI heads towards clean energy; climate change and coffee; melting Arctic & Russia.
Tag: carbon offsets capture and sequestration
The Daily Climate, April 14, 2021
Articles include: clean energy focus; blue carbon credits; John Kerry off to China; Glacier in Alaska is moving; Mexico & coal; Cost of rechargeable batteries; Brazil & Indigenous land rights; Endangered American rivers; companies call on Biden to reduce GHGs.
Yale Climate Connections, April 9, 2021
Articles include: Wind and solar energy are job creators. Which states are taking advantage? Forecasters predict an above-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2021; How the nonprofit Green 2.0 is tackling the environmental movement’s diversity problem; Experts lay out their case against carbon pricing; Some insightful background pieces on Bangladesh; Extreme weather threatens internet infrastructure, broadband pioneer warns; How libraries are improving climate literacy in their communities; Georgia-based innovation lab works to speed the transition to clean transportation; Scholar-advocate Beverly Wright pushes for equity and justice in climate policy; Climate change is making it harder to grow the potatoes traditionally used for French fries
The Daily Climate, March 30,2021
Articles include: Eastern Kentucky and flooding; Biden offshore wind farms; Massachusetts law and gas ban; Japan’s cherry blossoms peak; Electric vehicles; investigating trump attacks on science; Russian oil leaks; DOE & carbon capture; Study: China and coal-based electricity (published by Ember, the London-based energy and climate research group – no link provided); Biden reducing methane emissions.
The Daily Climate, March 10, 2021
Articles include: One chemical plant emits a super-pollutant that does more climate damage than every car in the city Is the ‘legacy’ carbon credit market a climate plus or just hype? Ecuador court orders end to gas flaring by oil industry in Amazon; California’s big oil wins OK for 40,500 wells. Farmer vows to sue; Federal courts help Biden quickly dismantle Trump’s climate and environmental legacy; Twelve states are suing Biden’s administration over executive order on climate change; Climate change could drive Komodo dragons to extinction; Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it? U.S. judge approves Daimler’s $1.5 billion diesel emissions settlement
The Daily Climate, March 8, 2021
Articles include: Big banks make a dangerous bet on the world’s growing demand for food; In call for environmental justice, Biden’s climate agenda reaches into neighborhoods; Can the market save the planet? FedEx is the latest brand-name firm to say it’s trying.; Mexico set to reshape power sector to favor the state; Oil giants prepare to put carbon back in the ground; NFTs are hot. So is their effect on the Earth’s climate; Porsche to produce fuel ′as clean′ as electric vehicles; Carbon taxes don’t reduce emissions but closing offshore tax havens can; Singapore builds huge floating solar farm at sea in bid to tackle climate crisis; Lake Huron is getting warmer: What that means for Georgian Bay
A Maine Startup Wants To Pull Carbon Out Of The Atmosphere Using Kelp
NPR: A Maine Startup Wants To Pull Carbon Out Of The Atmosphere Using Kelp. A Maine startup is drawing high-profile support for its low-tech plan to address climate change. It wants to use kelp farms to capture carbon, then bury it for millennia at the bottom of the sea. In the race to stall or even reverse global warming, there are new efforts to pull carbon dioxide out of the air and put it somewhere safe. One startup in Maine has a vision that’s getting attention from scientists and investors – bury massive amounts of seaweed at the bottom of the sea. Now, why will that help? Maine Public Radio’s Fred Bever explains.
LARGE FOOD COMPANIES ARE LOOKING TO LOCK CARBON IN SOIL AS A WAY TO MEET AMBITIOUS EMISSIONS GOALS
Ensia: LARGE FOOD COMPANIES ARE LOOKING TO LOCK CARBON IN SOIL AS A WAY TO MEET AMBITIOUS EMISSIONS GOALS. Regenerative agriculture practices can sequester carbon in soil, but for companies with complex supply chains, the logistics of moving to such practices can be complicated. Jason Johnson, Stonyfield Organic’s farmer relationship manager, fires up the AgriCORE soil sampling tool in a pasture with sweeping views of central Maine’s rolling hillsides at Dostie Farm, an organic dairy. The auger bit whirrs as it slices through clover and grass, spiraling downward into the earth to retrieve a sample from the 650-acre (263-hectare) farm on a blustery October day.
It takes Johnson three tries to get it right, and the auger emerges from the ground, encased in a thin layer of dark soil. Leah Puro, agricultural research coordinator at Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment, scoops the soil into a tiny foil dish, then pops it into a battery-powered oven to remove its moisture before sending it to Yale University for elemental analysis, one of the most accurate methods for measuring the amount of carbon trapped in the soil. Puro slides another portion of the soil into a portable refractometer to measure the carbon content using a newer method called Quick Carbon that’s being tested as a rapid means for measuring carbon in the field.
Exxon Mobil to invest $3 billion in carbon capture and other projects to lower emissions.
New York Times: Exxon Mobil to invest $3 billion in carbon capture and other projects to lower emissions.
Exxon Mobil, which has long been criticized by environmentalists and some investors and elected leaders for not doing enough to curb climate change, said on Monday it would invest $3 billion over the next five years in energy projects that lower emissions.
The company said the first area it would work on is capturing carbon dioxide emissions from industrial plants and storing the gas so it does not enter the atmosphere, where it contributes to global warming. Many climate experts have said that such carbon capture and sequestration will be critical in the fight against climate change.
Is It Time for an Emergency Rollout of Carbon-Eating Machines?
Wired: Is It Time for an Emergency Rollout of Carbon-Eating Machines? Facilities that suck carbon dioxide out of the air could be powerful weapons for fighting climate change. But their deployment requires a huge wartime-style investment.
THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY demands that we dramatically and rapidly cut emissions. There’s no substitute for that, full stop. But it also demands a technological revolution to reverse years of out-of-control emissions: The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change notes that if we want to meet the Paris climate agreement’s most optimistic goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, we have to deploy some sort of negative emissions technologies.