Climate, Coal, Green and Industry

Study finds methane emissions from coal mines ~50% higher than previously thought

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The amount of methane released into the atmosphere as a result of coal mining is likely approximately 50% higher than previously estimated, according to research presented at the recent annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The authors point out that less coal production doesn’t translate to less methane.

Coal

Coal Emissions Escape Ukraine

Rhodium Group estimates US GHG fell 2.1% in 2019, driven by coal decline

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JANUARY 8, 2020

This decline was due almost entirely to a drop in coal consumption. Coal-fired power generation fell by a record 18% year-on-year to its lowest level since 1975. An increase in natural gas generation offset some of the climate gains from this coal decline, but overall power sector emissions still decreased by almost 10%.

Coal

Coal 2019 2018 Gas-Electric

IG Metall warns that Krupp Mannesmann steel plant may fail due to lack of financing for conversion to climate-neutral steel production

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

IG Metall, Germany’s largest union as well as Europe’s largest industrial union, warns that at Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (HKM), the switch to climate-neutral steel production is may fail due to the lack of financing. HKM aims to reduce CO 2 emissions by 30% by the year 2025, and then be as climate neutral as possible by 2045.

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Financing Climate Conversion Production

H2FUTURE building world’s largest green hydrogen pilot plant; targeting the steel industry

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APRIL 16, 2018

The European H2FUTURE project consortium, comprising voestalpine, Siemens, VERBUND, and Austrian Power Grid, together with the research partners K1-MET and ECN, officially gave the green light to the construction of a 6 MW “green” hydrogen pilot production plant—the world’s largest—at a voestalpine Linz steel plant.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Industry Industrial Green

Germany and Australia to establish alliance on green hydrogen supply chain

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JUNE 14, 2021

German Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier and Federal Minister of Research Anja Karliczek, together with their Australian counterpart, Energy Minister Angus Taylor, have signed a letter of intent to establish a “Germany Australia Hydrogen Accord” to facilitate a green hydrogen supply chain between the countries.

Australia

Australia Germany Hydrogen Green

ArcelorMittal Europe to produce “green steel” starting in 2020

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The strategy is centred around two main technology routes, as introduced in the first ArcelorMittal Europe climate action report published earlier this year: The use of hydrogen in DRI-EAF (Direct Reduced Iron - Electric Arc Furnace) and, also, the blast furnace. The expansion of its Smart Carbon route, also utilizing hydrogen.

Europe

Europe Green 2020 Hydrogen

Iron ore leader Fortescue pushing green hydrogen, ammonia and electricity projects

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APRIL 10, 2021

Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fortescue, will be a key enabler of this target through the development of green electricity, green hydrogen and green ammonia projects in Australia. We have joined the global battle to defeat climate change.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Green Climate Change Australia

Mercedes-Benz AG and H2 Green Steel secure supply deal and an MoU to establish N American supply chain

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JUNE 8, 2023

Mercedes-Benz has signed a supply agreement with Swedish start-up H2 Green Steel (H2GS) ( earlier post ) over approximately 50,000 tonnes almost CO₂-free steel per year for its European press shops and deepened its partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim to establish a sustainable steel supply chain in North America.

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Supplies Mercedes Green North America

thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We are thus underlining our claim to make a significant and, above all, rapid contribution to the green transformation—also where steel is concerned. In this region, we have everything that is needed for a successful green transformation. That is why the Ruhr region is playing a leading role in the energy turnaround.

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Low CO2 Hydrogen CO2 Power

Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Welcome to Australia, where a green-hydrogen boom is in full swing. Both the massive and the toy-size vehicles are about selling Australians on the transformative potential of green hydrogen—hydrogen gas produced from renewable energy—to decarbonize their fossil-fuel-based economy. Why a hydrogen truck?

Australia

Australia Hydrogen Green Renewable

BNEF, Snam, IGU report finds global gas industry set to resume growth post-pandemic; low-carbon technologies for long-term growth

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AUGUST 7, 2020

However, the resulting low gas prices, as well as clean air and climate policies, will promote further switching to gas from other more polluting energy sources, such as oil and coal. The goal is to bring down the cost of green hydrogen until it becomes competitive with fossil fuels in many applications in the next five years.

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Gas Global Industry Industrial

ENEOS begins joint study with Origin on Japan-Australia green hydrogen supply chain; MCH as transport medium

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AUGUST 26, 2021

This will be achieved by utilizing Australia’s excellent potential for cost-competitive hydrogen production due to its favorable climate conditions, including wind and sunlight, and expansive land. The state government is promoting hydrogen industry development leveraging these renewable energy sources.

Japan

Japan Australia Hydrogen Supplies

SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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MAY 21, 2020

Energy company SGH2 is bringing the world’s biggest green hydrogen production facility to Lancaster, California. SGH2 says that its green hydrogen is cost competitive with “gray” hydrogen produced from fossil fuels such as natural gas—the source of the majority of hydrogen used in the United States. —Lancaster Mayor R.

Waste

Waste Hydrogen Green California

RWE and ArcelorMittal intend to build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities for low-emissions steelmaking

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JUNE 23, 2022

Energy company RWE and steel producer ArcelorMittal have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to develop, build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities that will supply the renewable energy and green hydrogen required to produce low-emissions steel in Germany.

Wind

Wind Hydrogen Emissions Building

thyssenkrupp Steel, HKM and Port of Rotterdam jointly investigate setting up hydrogen supply chains

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2021

In the course of their transformation paths towards climate-neutral steel making, thyssenkrupp Steel and HKM will require large and increasing quantities of hydrogen to produce steel without coal. Green hydrogen is a sustainable alternative to coal, oil and natural gas.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Supplies Coal Stimulus

10 Major Industries Ranked By Climate Action Progress

CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 13, 2021

Much of industry is responding well to the biggest issue of this century, one we've jointly created over the past 300 years. But there is still much work to be done.

Industry

Industry Industrial Climate Climate Change

Coal-country voters laugh at politicians who deny climate change

Green Car Reports

JUNE 8, 2017

The "war on coal" has long been a talking point of politicians running for elected office in the state of Kentucky. The state was once home to a booming coal industry that has floundered over the years as cheaper fracked natural gas has supplanted coal for electricity generation.

Coal

Coal Climate Change Climate Kentucky

There’s Only One Kind Of “Just” Transition I Want To See

Creative Greenius

JULY 11, 2022

Oil, gas and coal workers have all known for more than a dozen years that their work was helping to destroy people’s health and well being. So the justice I want to see is first, second and third for the victims in the sacrifice zones created by the oil, gas and coal companies. They belittled and rejected the Green New Deal.

Coal

Coal Oil Cleaning Clean

bp and thyssenkrupp Steel to advance the decarbonization of steel production; low-carbon hydrogen and renewable power

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JULY 12, 2022

bp and thyssenkrupp Steel have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) focused on the development of long-term supply of low-carbon hydrogen and renewable power in steel production, helping accelerate the steel industry’s wider energy transition. The steel and energy industries have of course long been closely linked.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Carbon Renewable Power

3.8% drop in EU’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019; transport emissions rise

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JUNE 1, 2021

The large decline in emissions, achieved before the COVID-19 crisis, was mainly due to reduced coal use for power generation. The official data, submitted on behalf of the EU to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), show that EU Member States managed to reduce collectively their emissions by 3.8%

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2019 Emissions Transportation Gas

Eight energy majors commit to reduce methane emissions within natural gas industry

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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The commitment was made as part of wider efforts by the global energy industry to ensure that natural gas continues to play a critical role in helping meet future energy demand while addressing climate change. —Mark Radka, Head of UN Environment’s Energy and Climate Branch.

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Gas Emissions Industry Industrial

Volvo Cars first carmaker to explore fossil-free steel with SSAB and HYBRIT

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JUNE 17, 2021

Volvo Cars is teaming up with Swedish steel maker SSAB to jointly explore the development of fossil-free, high-quality steel for use in the automotive industry. It aims to replace coking coal, traditionally needed for iron ore-based steelmaking, with fossil-free electricity and hydrogen.

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Volvo Cars Coal Hydrogen

3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Big Oil has frequently been chided for merely trying to burnish its green credentials, and so far, it has done little to convince us that it is truly moving forward to greenness. Let this sink in: In 2018, Big Oil spent less than 1% of its combined budget on green energy projects. by Alex Kimani for Oilprice.com.

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Oil Renewable Wind Gas-Electric

Figuring Out Semiconductor Manufacturing's Climate Footprint

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Before we start, I want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum ‘s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics, by signing up for one of our free newsletters. Can we make everything in our world smarter without worsening climate change? Boakes: Yeah.

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The $32-Trillion Push To Disrupt The Entire Oil Industry

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The first signs of a green revolution in the shareholder-investors universe are there, as investors have forced Dutch oil and gas major Shell to officially change its strategy, investing in more renewable energy and energy storage. The future is different and could be even less positive than currently is assessed.

Oil

Oil Industry Industrial Financing

Biden Budget — Chance to Stop Paying Fossil Fuel Industry

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 27, 2021

This blueprint for government spending is an enormous opportunity to eliminate handouts to the fossil fuel industry through the new American Jobs Plan and Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. Here’s what the budget should eliminate: loopholes […].

Industry

Industry Industrial Fuel Climate

EPA GHG Inventory shows US GHG down 1.7% y-o-y in 2019, down 13% from 2005

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APRIL 17, 2021

This decrease was driven largely by a decrease in emissions from fossil fuel combustion resulting from a decrease in total energy use in 2019 compared to 2018 and a continued shift from coal to natural gas and renewables in the electric power sector. CO 2 emissions decreased 2.2% from 2018 to 2019.

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2005 2019 EPA Climate Change

ICCT LCA study finds only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways

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JULY 21, 2021

This study uses recent data on industrial-scale battery production and considers regional battery supply chains. Natural gas does not offer climate benefits compared to gasoline and diesel, and many biofuel pathways do not, either. This is especially important for assessing the GHG emissions of PHEVs.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Fuel Battery Batteries

Largest pilot plant for CO2-neutral production of hydrogen begins operation at voestalpine site in Linz

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NOVEMBER 28, 2019

As part of the EU-funded H2FUTURE project, partners voestalpine, VERBUND, Siemens, Austrian Power Grid, K1-MET and TNO are researching into the industrial production of green hydrogen as a means of replacing fossil fuels in steel production over the long term. It creates the basis for future projects on an industrial scale.

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Hydrogen Production CO2 Power Grid

ArcelorMittal inaugurates €200M Steelanol carbon capture and utilization project at Ghent plant

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

The €200-million Steelanol project is a first of its kind for the European steel industry. ArcelorMittal Ghent will soon inaugurate another first for the European steel industry, with its Torero project set to come on stream in the first quarter of 2023. Earlier post.) —Lakskmi Mittal, ArcelorMittal Executive Chairman.

Carbon

Carbon Belgium Waste Coal

'Fossil fuels are dead,' says CSX railroad chief: no more new trains for coal, ever

Green Car Reports

JULY 31, 2017

The industrial revolution that began around 1750 was powered in large part by coal, and the carbon-rich fuel had 200 good years after that.

Coal

Coal Climate Change Fuel Climate

Bankruptcy shows scope of Peabody Coal's climate denial lobbying

Green Car Reports

JUNE 15, 2016

These are tough times for the coal industry. Coal plants are being retired at an increasing rate in North America and Europe, replaced by a combination of natural-gas and renewable generating capacity.

Coal

Coal Climate North America Gas-Electric

Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Growth in oil use, particularly aviation, and coal use are behind most of the increase in 2022. —Glen Peters, a Research Director at the CICERO Center for International Climate Research. CO 2 emissions from coal use are expected to grow 1.0% [0.2% The decline in 2020 of -5.2% increase in 2021. Turmoil in energy markets.

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Global Emissions Carbon Coal

B9 Coal Assembles Consortium to Combine Underground Coal Gasification, Alkaline Fuel Cells and Carbon Capture and Storage

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AUGUST 26, 2010

UK-based B9 Coal, established in 2009 with the objective of developing projects combining Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and alkaline hydrogen fuel cells, is bringing together a consortium including WSP Group, AFC Energy and Linc Energy to develop such a project.

Coal

Coal Carbon Fuel Climate Change

Study concludes abundant shale gas is neither climate hero nor villain; need for targeted GHG reduction policy

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MAY 15, 2014

In this paper, we focus on the implications of growing shale gas production for the climate. If natural gas is abundant and less expensive, it will encourage greater natural gas consumption and less consumption of fuels such as coal, renewables and nuclear power. —Newell and Raimi.

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Climate Gas Coal Gas-Electric

Elkem to test first carbon capture pilot for silicon smelters

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

The project has received financial support from Gassnova CLIMIT and is a follow-up to the company’s recently launched climate roadmap to reduce emissions towards net zero while growing supplies to the green transition. million) and the industry will contribute with the remaining amount. The project has a total budget of NOK 23.6

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Carbon Norway Climate Emissions

The day without coal: Britain's first one since 1882

Green Car Reports

APRIL 24, 2017

The Industrial Revolution that started around 1750 in England was powered largely by coal. With Watt's invention of the steam engine and the emergence of railways in the mid-nineteenth century, the carbon-dense fuel was central to the change from an agricultural economy to an industrial one.

Coal

Coal Carbon Economy Industry

NASA-led study suggests coal soot shrank Alpine glaciers in mid-1800s

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

A NASA-led team of scientists has uncovered strong evidence that coal soot from a rapidly industrializing Europe caused the abrupt retreat of mountain glaciers in the European Alps that began in the 1860s, a period often thought of as the end of the Little Ice Age (LIA). —Painter et al. Something was missing from the equation.

Coal

Coal Carbon Climate Europe

West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd: Coal Must Embrace The Future

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DECEMBER 6, 2009

” “ Some have even suggested that coal state representatives in Washington should block any advancement of national health care reform legislation until the coal industry’s demands are met by the EPA, ”, wrote Byrd. West Virginia is home to about 22,000 coal miners, down from 62,500 in 1979.

West Virginia

West Virginia Virginia Coal Future

ARPA-E to award INNIO Waukesha Gas Engines $2.2M for emissions reduction technology demonstration project

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

The program aims to reduce emissions in the oil, gas, and coal industries and promote innovation and manufacturing of new technologies to achieve climate goals. The funding is part of ARPA-E’s “Reducing Emissions of Methane Every Day of the Year” (REMEDY) program that was unveiled earlier this year ( earlier post ).

Gas

Gas Emissions Engine Coal

IEF, IHS Markit: deepening underinvestment in hydrocarbons raises specter of continued price shocks and volatility

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DECEMBER 12, 2021

More frequent boom-bust cycles will harm consumers and producers recovering from COVID, set back UN Climate and Sustainable Development goals and threaten global security. Pressure on governments and industry for a green recovery is further constraining availability of capital, it says.

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Price Oil Asia Gas

Senators Sanders, Boxer propose legislation to institute GHG price on large stationary sources and remove support for fossil fuel industries

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The legislation also proposes numerous actions against financing and support for fossil fuel industries. Imported fuels and products would also be charged the same carbon fee that domestic fuels and products play, unless the exporting nation has similar climate program and already charges a fee on carbon. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

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Industry Industrial Price Fuel

MIT report finds China’s actions on climate change crucial; argues for global economy-wide greenhouse gas tax

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MAY 29, 2012

The report—titled “The Role of China in Mitigating Climate Change” and published in the journal Energy Economics , compares the impact of a stringent emissions reduction policy with and without China’s participation. Eighty percent of those emissions came from coal, making China the consumer of about half the world’s coal.

Climate Change

Climate Change MIT Climate Tax

Study finds methane emissions from coal mines ~50% higher than previously thought

Rhodium Group estimates US GHG fell 2.1% in 2019, driven by coal decline

IG Metall warns that Krupp Mannesmann steel plant may fail due to lack of financing for conversion to climate-neutral steel production

H2FUTURE building world’s largest green hydrogen pilot plant; targeting the steel industry

Germany and Australia to establish alliance on green hydrogen supply chain

ArcelorMittal Europe to produce “green steel” starting in 2020

Iron ore leader Fortescue pushing green hydrogen, ammonia and electricity projects

Mercedes-Benz AG and H2 Green Steel secure supply deal and an MoU to establish N American supply chain

thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

BNEF, Snam, IGU report finds global gas industry set to resume growth post-pandemic; low-carbon technologies for long-term growth

ENEOS begins joint study with Origin on Japan-Australia green hydrogen supply chain; MCH as transport medium

SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

RWE and ArcelorMittal intend to build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities for low-emissions steelmaking

thyssenkrupp Steel, HKM and Port of Rotterdam jointly investigate setting up hydrogen supply chains

10 Major Industries Ranked By Climate Action Progress

Coal-country voters laugh at politicians who deny climate change

More Stories From The Public Relations Incompetence Of Climate-Challenged Industries

There’s Only One Kind Of “Just” Transition I Want To See

bp and thyssenkrupp Steel to advance the decarbonization of steel production; low-carbon hydrogen and renewable power

3.8% drop in EU’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019; transport emissions rise

Eight energy majors commit to reduce methane emissions within natural gas industry

Volvo Cars first carmaker to explore fossil-free steel with SSAB and HYBRIT

3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

Figuring Out Semiconductor Manufacturing's Climate Footprint

The $32-Trillion Push To Disrupt The Entire Oil Industry

Biden Budget — Chance to Stop Paying Fossil Fuel Industry

EPA GHG Inventory shows US GHG down 1.7% y-o-y in 2019, down 13% from 2005

ICCT LCA study finds only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways

Largest pilot plant for CO2-neutral production of hydrogen begins operation at voestalpine site in Linz

ArcelorMittal inaugurates €200M Steelanol carbon capture and utilization project at Ghent plant

'Fossil fuels are dead,' says CSX railroad chief: no more new trains for coal, ever

Bankruptcy shows scope of Peabody Coal's climate denial lobbying

Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

B9 Coal Assembles Consortium to Combine Underground Coal Gasification, Alkaline Fuel Cells and Carbon Capture and Storage

Study concludes abundant shale gas is neither climate hero nor villain; need for targeted GHG reduction policy

Elkem to test first carbon capture pilot for silicon smelters

The day without coal: Britain's first one since 1882

NASA-led study suggests coal soot shrank Alpine glaciers in mid-1800s

West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd: Coal Must Embrace The Future

ARPA-E to award INNIO Waukesha Gas Engines $2.2M for emissions reduction technology demonstration project

IEF, IHS Markit: deepening underinvestment in hydrocarbons raises specter of continued price shocks and volatility

Senators Sanders, Boxer propose legislation to institute GHG price on large stationary sources and remove support for fossil fuel industries

MIT report finds China’s actions on climate change crucial; argues for global economy-wide greenhouse gas tax

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