Carbon

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) efforts to support commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) are advancing. More than a half-dozen projects are capturing 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) through a regional partnership with DOE funding, the agency said.

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) efforts to support commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) are advancing. More than a half-dozen projects are capturing 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) through a regional partnership with DOE funding, the agency said.

BP plc plans to acknowledge more about its role in how its operations may impact the climate after shareholders — with full board support — overwhelming passed a resolution at the company’s annual meeting urging more disclosure.

BP plc plans to acknowledge more about its role in how its operations may impact the climate after shareholders — with full board support — overwhelming passed a resolution at the company’s annual meeting urging more disclosure.

Critics may prefer natural gas and oil be left in the ground, but renewables aren’t yet able to take over and “provoking a sudden death of fossil fuels isn’t a plausible plan,” Royal Dutch Shell plc’s chief said Thursday.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee last Tuesday proposed establishing a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, estimating that it could generate $1 billion annually in state revenue and help fulfill his climate change mitigation goals along the lines of California’s approach.

The best material to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from natural gas wells could be in a cheap derivative of asphalt, a material primarily used to build roads, Rice University scientists have found.

While making little mention of energy, except for renewables, and totally ignoring hydraulic fracturing (fracking), California Gov. Jerry Brown left no doubt in his state-of-the-state speech Monday that climate change will continue to dominate in his unprecedented fourth four-year term as governor. He called for dramatic increases in renewable energy use.

Rice University scientists are on to an environmentally friendly carbon-capture method that may be equally adept at drawing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from natural gas wells and industrial flue gases.