Carbon

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday upheld its December 2009 endangerment finding, which held that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions pose a danger to the public’s health and welfare. The finding provided the legal trigger for the agency to regulate emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) (see Daily GPI, Dec. 8, 2009).

Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) plans to introduce a “practical” energy and climate change bill Monday (June 7) that seeks to cut the nation’s energy usage and carbon dioxide emissions significantly over the next two decades.

Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) plans to introduce a “practical” energy and climate change bill next Monday that seeks to cut the nation’s energy usage and carbon dioxide emissions significantly over the next two decades.

Because it has not yet seen a decrease in the carbon dioxide (CO2) content at its Beatrice, NE, interconnect with Trailblazer Pipeline (see Daily GPI, March 31), Northern Natural Gas said it plans to go ahead and reduce the interconnect’s operationally available capacity starting Thursday to 300,000 Dth/d. Northern said it intends to get the volume of high-CO2 gas being delivered by Trailblazer low enough to meet its CO2 tariff maximum to 2.0% or less in the market area. Northern also plans to post a System Underrun Limitation for its market area Thursday. See the bulletin board for other details.

Because it has not yet seen a decrease in the carbon dioxide (CO2) content at its Beatrice, NE, interconnect with Trailblazer Pipeline (see Daily GPI, March 31), Northern Natural Gas said it plans to go ahead and reduce the interconnect’s operationally available capacity starting Thursday to 300,000 Dth/d. Northern said it intends to get the volume of high-CO2 gas being delivered by Trailblazer low enough to meet its CO2 tariff maximum to 2.0% or less in the market area. Northern also plans to post a System Underrun Limitation for its market area Thursday. See the bulletin board for other details.

Last year global concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide — the main long-lived greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere — reached the highest levels recorded since pre-industrial times, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), an agency of the United Nations (UN).

Congress and the Obama administration should support renewable as well as traditional sources of energy as the nation transitions to a low-carbon economy, Business Roundtable, a group of CEOs of U.S. companies, said last Wednesday.

Congress and the Obama administration should support renewable as well as traditional sources of energy as the nation transitions to a low-carbon economy, Business Roundtable, a group of CEOs of U.S. companies, said Wednesday.

U.S. lawmakers “vastly overstate” how quickly business can reduce carbon emissions, and they could risk an economic collapse if unrealistic reduction mandates are imposed, Chevron Corp. CEO Dave O’Reilly said Thursday in Boston.