In an 8 February 2007 entry, I discussed Maryland’s study of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Maryland’s 2006 Healthy Air Act required the state to become a full member of RGGI by June 2007. At the time, Maryland participated only as an observing state. Now Maryland is a full member of RGGI, and will [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Maryland Joins RGGI
Posted in carbon markets, law, random bits on 25 April 2007 | Leave a Comment »
EPA Explores Options for Further Delay
Posted in carbon capture & storage, global warming, law, random bits on 24 April 2007 | Leave a Comment »
U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson will face Barbara Boxer and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today. The Senate Committee members are keen to explore the implications of the recent Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA. In a statement prepared for the hearings, Johnson made it clear that EPA is exploring its options to [...]
Time for Sequestration: “We’ll Fry by 2045″ “Who’ll Be Alive in 2045?”
Posted in carbon capture & storage, law on 19 April 2007 | 4 Comments »
The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held hearings on 16 April 2007 to discuss Senate Bill 731 “National Carbon Dioxide Storage Capacity Assessment Act of 2007″ and Senate Bill 962 “DOE Carbon Capture and Storage Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 2007″. Both bills aim to expedite federal research and demonstration projects. S. [...]
UN SEG Recommends CCS
Posted in carbon capture & storage, global warming, random bits on 14 April 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The UN’s Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development recently released a report–Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable. The report recommends carbon capture and storage (CCS) among its mitigation options. The authors take a pragmatic approach, noting that about 80% of the energy in developed countries comes fossil fuels, [...]
NOAA’s Carbon Tracker
Posted in random bits on 14 April 2007 | Leave a Comment »
NOAA’s Carbon Tracker calculates CO2 uptake and release at the earth’s surface over time. The Carbon Tracker provides information about how sinks (ecosystems & the ocean) are responding to increasing amounts of
atmospheric CO2. It may also be useful for quantifying anthropogenic emissions at a regional scale, serving as an independent check on emissions accounting. If [...]
U.S. Climate Change Partnership
Posted in carbon capture & storage, global warming on 12 April 2007 | 2 Comments »
ConocoPhillips has been in the headlines recently because CEO Jim Mulva announced that the federal government should impose mandatory limits on GHG emissions. Most news stories mention that ConocoPhillips is joining the U.S. Climate Change Partnership (USCAP). This is a good opportunity to examine the goals and recommendations of USCAP.
USCAP is made up of [...]
