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EPA sets out revised carbon emission rules for power plants
2013-09-23 09:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Advocates for the coal and utilities industries criticised new proposals by the Environmental Protection Agency to curb carbon emissions from newly-constructed power plants on Friday. The rules, based on the US Clean Air Act, have been made to support the Climate Action Plan announced by President Obama in July. In making this proposal, the EPA backed down on an original proposal made last year, which applied identical limits to gas and coal-fired plants. That rule may have been subject to a legal...
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EPA Proposes Carbon Pollution Standards For New Power Plants
2013-09-23 05:37:26| pollutiononline News Articles
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed Clean Air Act standards to cut carbon pollution from new power plants in order to combat climate change and improve public health
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Climate Change And Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation Receives 344 Proposals For The $35M International Grand Challenge For Carbon Use
2013-09-23 05:08:03| pollutiononline News Articles
The Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation received 344 submissions in the first round of funding for its internationalGrand Challenge
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LanzaTech Awarded $4M Grant From ARPA-E To Transform Waste Methane Resources Into Low Carbon Fuels And Chemicals
2013-09-23 05:01:53| pollutiononline News Articles
LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, today announced that it has been awarded a $4 million grant by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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Norway ditches 'moon landing' carbon capture project
2013-09-23 04:36:06| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Norway has abandoned plans to build a full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant at the Mongstad refinery, curtailing a $1bn project known as the country's "moon landing". The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy confirmed late last week the plans would be halted and the government will instead look to develop "at least one full-scale CCS project ... by 2020" in another location. However, government funding for the CCS test centre at Mongstad will be increased by 400 million kroner (42m) over...
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