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US cap-and-trade system back on track to cut carbon emissions
2014-03-10 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Progress: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative had its first auction this week since lowering its cap -- and the results suggest the system is once again effectively reducing carbon emissions. Encompassing nine states in the northeast, RGGI is a cap-and-trade system that started operating in 2008. It sets an overall cap on the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted by the participating states. Then it breaks that amount into permits -- each allowing for one ton of emissions in a given year -- and...
BNSF Customers Reduce CO2 Emissions By More Than 30 Million Metric Tons In 2013 Shipping By Rail
2014-03-10 07:29:34| pollutiononline News Articles
BNSF Railway customers continue to make significant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions by shipping their freight by rail instead of entirely over the road
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Cost-Effective Methane Emissions Reductions From U.S. Oil And Gas
2014-03-10 06:54:49| pollutiononline News Articles
An independent analysis conducted by ICF International (ICF) has determined that the onshore segment of the U.S. oil and gas sector can significantly reduce emissions of methane – a highly potent greenhouse gas and the primary ingredient in natural gas – using currently available technologies and at a low annualized cost
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Australia: Carbon pricing needed to control greenhouse gas emissions - BHP chief
2014-03-08 21:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Andrew Mackenzie, who took over at BHP in 2013 has called for a price to be put on greenhouse gas emissions to address the threat of global warming. He says the mining industry needs to do more to develop technology to capture and store carbon dioxide. Talking in Houston Texas on the future of fossil fuels and carbon emissions Andrew Mackenzie said BHP needs to think carefully about controlling its carbon emissions. He wants BHP to lead the way. BHP is the world's largest mining company and the third...
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Green groups take comments on EPA new proposal to regulate carbon emissions
2014-03-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Statewide and local environmental groups took public comment on Thursday evening to forward to the Environmental Protection Agency on a proposed rule to regulate carbon emissions from new power plants. A peoples hearing held in meeting rooms of the Holiday Inn in Helena brought forward support for the EPAs new regulation and affirmed the need to also move ahead with the proposed regulation. The EPA website notes that new standards on carbon dioxide limits from new fossil-fuel electrical generation...
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