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Introduction of a Bipartisan Scale Act – Landmark CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage Infrastructure Bill
WASHINGTON, March 17, 2021 – A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers led by Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Representatives Marc Veasey (D-TX) and David McKinley (R-WV) introduced the SCALE Act (Storing CO2 and Lowering Emissions Act) today, designed to substantially scale-up carbon capture and removal on…
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Netherlands’ SDE++ to accelerate industrial decarbonization as it closes final round of applications
The EU has strengthened its position as a global leader on climate action by announcing targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 per cent by 2030, relative to 1990 levels, and to achieve climate-neutrality by 2050. To deliver on these targets, it will be crucial for ambitious…
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Petra Nova: De-risking Carbon Capture Business Models with Saline Storage
The carbon capture facility Petra Nova has made headlines recently when it stopped capturing CO₂. “Earlier this spring when oil prices fell, we ceased operations at Petra Nova and the delivery of CO₂ to the West Ranch Oil Field,” Chris Rimel, a spokesman of NRG, the company that runs the…
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Interactive Map of CCUS Projects in Development in the U.S.
The expanded and extended 45Q tax credit for carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) projects passed by the U.S. Congress in early 2018 is the most significant carbon capture-specific incentive available, globally, and is spurring the progress of dozens of projects around the country. Other nations that are looking to…
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CATF Statement on European Commission Hydrogen Strategy
The European Commission yesterday released a Hydrogen Strategy that could render Europe a world leader in decarbonization with hydrogen fuels, including an emphasis on enabling infrastructure and utilization in industrial and transportation markets. The Clean Air Task Force (CATF) applauds that direction and looks forward to joining environmental and industry…
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Can Carbon Capture Achieve 99+% CO2 Removal from Industrial and Power Plants?
Scientific studies of climate change have reached a sobering conclusion. It won’t be enough just to make deep reductions in carbon dioxide releases. By the second half of this century, all CO₂ emissions must be removed from the energy system. This requirement means capturing 90% of the CO₂ emissions from…
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Methane’s Moment: A Global Alliance for Deep Reductions in Methane Pollution from the Oil and Gas Sector
Until about two years ago, the oil and gas methane pollution corner of the climate world was fairly quiet. CATF had been working on methane and other super pollutants like black carbon since the first scientific recognition of the dangers of short-lived climate pollutants (aka super pollutants) back in the…
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Two Carbon Capture Projects: A Deeper Look
Two carbon capture projects made headlines in 2017. The Petra Nova project at NRG’s Texas Parish coal-fired power plant began capturing CO2 in January. Petra Nova was built on time and on budget, and is on is on track to capture 1.6 million tons of CO2 each year. More recently, Southern Company announced that the Kemper plant in Mississippi would no longer burn coal, and would cease capturing the coal plant’s CO2 emissions. Now Kemper will burn natural gas without CO2 controls.
