carbon sequestration News

New Jersey joins the Energy Department`s carbon sequestration regional partnership program

The State of New Jersey is the newest member of the U.S. Department of Energy's Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership program—the centerpiece of national efforts to validate and deploy carbon sequestration technologies. The addition of New Jersey, the 43rd state to join the program, helps strengthen U.S. efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change. New Jersey—along ...

Jun. 25, 2009

By Environmental News Network (ENN)

Aid needed to help China make carbon cuts

International carbon funds should be aggressively directed towards helping China avoid the use of carbon-rich technologies, say Ning Zeng and colleagues in this Science article. Action is needed despite significant gains in energy efficiency, they note, because based on current economic growth rates and levels of carbon intensity (emissions per unit of gross domestic product) China's emissions ...

Mar. 18, 2008

US energy dept awards US$126m for carbon sequestration projects

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced awards of more than US$126.6 million to the West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (WESTCARB) and the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP) for the Department’s fifth and sixth large-scale carbon sequestration projects. These industry partnerships, which are part of DOE’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership, ...

May 7, 2008

Carbon sequestration: boon or burden

Plans to sequester carbon are gaining support as a way to avoid global warming. The European Union plans to invest billions of Euros within the next ten years to develop carbon capture and storage whereby CO2 will be extracted at power plants and other combustion sites and stored underground. But how effective is this procedure and what are the long-term consequences of leakage for the oceans ...

Jul. 5, 2010

By GLOBE SERIES

U.S. EPA Approves Carbon Sequestration Permit in Decatur, Illinois

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a permit allowing the Archer Daniels Midland Company to inject carbon dioxide deep underground in Decatur, Illinois. This process – known as “carbon sequestration” – is a means of storing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. ADM plans to capture carbon dioxide produced by an ethanol ...

Sep. 26, 2014

DOE project starts CO2 sequestration in New Mexico coalbed

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and its Southwest Regional Partnership (SWP) recently began injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) in a large coalbed while simultaneously recovering valuable natural gas. The SWP plans to inject up to 35,000 tons of CO2 in a 6-month demonstration at the San Juan Basin near Navajo City, N.M. Unlike other enhanced coalbed methane recovery projects, this demonstration ...

Aug. 6, 2008

DOE completes large-scale carbon sequestration project awards

Completing a series of awards through its Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Program, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today awarded $66.9 million to the Big Sky Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership for the Department’s seventh large-scale carbon sequestration project. Led by Montana State University-Bozeman, the Partnership will conduct a large-volume test in the Nugget ...

Nov. 17, 2008

Agra-Cycle Announces Carbon Sequestration Project

Agra-Cycle announces carbon sequestration project likely to become the largest landfill reduction strategy in Tennessee State history composting a projected 10 million tons of organic waste by 2022. Using EPA computations this will eliminate approximately 7,000,000 million tons of greenhouse gases (methane) that would normally be produced if the waste were sent to a landfill to rot. ...

Jul. 2, 2011

By AgraCycle.com

U.S. EPA Approves Carbon Sequestration Permits in Central Illinois

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved permits allowing the FutureGen Industrial Alliance Inc. to inject carbon dioxide deep underground near Jacksonville, Illinois. This process – known as “carbon sequestration” – is a means of storing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. These four identical permits are the nation’s ...

Sep. 2, 2014

U.S. EPA Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Carbon Sequestration Permits in Central Illinois

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is accepting public comment on proposed permits that would allow the FutureGen Industrial Alliance Inc. to inject carbon dioxide deep underground near Jacksonville, Illinois. This process – known as “carbon sequestration” – is a means of storing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. The proposed ...

Mar. 31, 2014

Regional partner announces plans for carbon storage project using CO2 captured from coal-fired power plant

Southern Company and the Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (SECARB), one of seven members of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships program, have announced plans to store carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from an existing coal-fired power plant. The project represents a major step toward demonstrating the viability of integrating carbon ...

Jul. 21, 2009

By Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Big bucks from carbon sequestration - fact or fiction?

With carbon credits in the news and Australia developing policies to meet its Kyoto targets, many farmers are intrigued by soil carbon’s potential to not only boost soil productivity but put money in the bank by selling carbon credits. But just how realistic is that goal? Dr Jeff Baldock of CSIRO Land and Water, SA, will address this and other aspects of soil carbon in the Grains Research and ...

Mar. 6, 2009

Battelle, Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Release Phase II Reports

The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP), led by Battelle, has completed its Phase II projects to evaluate storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) in its nine-state region. In addition to the Phase II Final Report, which summarizes more than five years of research activities, 16 other detailed reports on geologic sequestration field tests, terrestrial sequestration field tests and ...

Nov. 15, 2011

By Battelle Memorial Institute

Montana Governor Signs Clean Energy Bills

HELENA, Montana (ENS) – Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer Tuesday signed into law two bills that provide tax incentives for future development and transmission of clean and renewable energy. The incentives support the development of new transmission lines, carbon dioxide sequestration pipelines to prevent emission of this greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, liquid fuel pipelines, power plants, ...

Jun. 1, 2007

By Environment News Service (ENS)

GLOBE 2008 session update: carbon capture and storage

The clear message from expert panelists speaking at the Carbon Capture and Storage session of GLOBE 2008 was that carbon capture and storage is proven, safe and Canada’s best option for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but the technology will not become commercially viable without government assistance. The largest barrier to the wide spread commercial use of carbon capture and storage ...

Mar. 12, 2008

By GLOBE SERIES

Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration 2015 Now Accepting Applications

Graduate students and early career professionals can gain hands-on field research experience in areas related to carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) by participating in the Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration (RECS) program. The initiative, supported by Department’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE), the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), and the CCUS Research ...

Apr. 13, 2015

EPA Grants First Underground Injection Permits to FutureGen for Illinois Project

The Environmental Protection Agency has granted the first-ever Class VI underground injection permits for carbon dioxide to FutureGen Industrial Alliance Inc., which plans to construct an innovative near zero-emission, coal-fired power plant in southern Illinois. In a statement released Sept. 2, the EPA said it approved a permit proposal for the FutureGen 2.0 carbon capture and sequestration ...

Sep. 3, 2014

By Bloomberg BNA

U.S.-South Africa Energy Meeting

South African Minister of Energy Benedict Martins and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman met December 2, 2013, in Washington, DC, for the fourth U.S.-South African Energy Dialogue, together with representatives of supporting U.S. and South African agencies. They reaffirmed the strong ongoing energy development in both nations -- including shale gas, civilian nuclear energy, renewable ...

Dec. 3, 2013

EPA finalizes rules to foster safe carbon storage technology actions part of efforts to reduce barriers to widespread deployment of carbon capture and sequestration, an important set of technologies to combat climate change

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized two rules related to the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide. Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies have the potential to enable large emitters of carbon dioxide, such as coal fired power plants, to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This technology allows carbon dioxide to be captured at stationary ...

Nov. 22, 2010