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Vive le carbon tax: France to tax fossil fuels
2013-09-25 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Australia may be out, but France is in. Two weeks after the new Australian government scrapped its carbon tax, France has announced that from next year, fossil fuel use will be taxed and the money used to further reduce emissions. The tax will target transport fuels and domestic heating, as these are not covered by the continent-wide Emissions Trading Scheme that focuses on European energy and industry. Fuel use is already taxed in France, but from next year part of this tax will be determined...
U-Mich researchers first-principles analysis challenges conventional carbon accounting for biofuels; implications for climate policy
2013-09-24 21:30:30| Green Car Congress
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EPA wont require carbon capture at existing coal plants
2013-09-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Existing coal-fired power plants wont be required to install equipment to capture and store the carbon dioxide they emit under new Environmental Protection Agency rules, the regulators top EPA official said. Gina McCarthy, the agencys administrator, told a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Washington today that EPA will issue guidelines for states that allow the use of energy efficiency, clean-energy installations or demand cuts to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions. The EPA issued...
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Statoil Shuts Downs High-Profile Carbon Capture Project
2013-09-24 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Statoil, the oil and gas giant based in Oslo, Norway, said on Monday that it would suspend an ambitious effort to capture and store carbon dioxide in underground geologic formations near its Mongstad refinery. The Norweigan government ultimately decided to pull the plug on the project, which began in 2006, as a result of rising costs. The government has . . . concluded, after careful consideration, that the risk connected to the Mongstad facility is too high and has for that reason decided...
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Geoengineering suits Russia's carbon agenda
2013-09-24 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guaridan: News that Russia is calling for geoengineering be considered by the IPCC as a possible response to global warming makes a perverse kind of sense. No government, not even those of Canada and Australia, has been more eager to open up new sources of fossil energy than Russia's. By offsetting the effects of global warming -- by, for example, coating the Earth with a layer of sulphate particles to reduce the amount of sunlight -- geoengineering promises to allow the world to have its carbon cake and...
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