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Indiana CCS project gets OGCI investment
May 20th, 2019 by Latest News
An Indiana integrated gasification combined cycle plant (IGCC) to be converted for ammonia production will receive funding from OGCI Climate Investments for an adjacent carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project.
Members split along party lines on May 16 as a US House Natural Resources Committee subcommittee considered whether US above-ground and underwater supplies are protected adequately from potentially damaging leaks or spills from onshore oil and gas expl…
The US Environmental Protection Agency issued a draft study on how the agency, states, Indian tribes, and other stakeholders manage wastewater from onshore oil and gas extraction. The undertaking will leverage expertise from those groups to identify ch…
US Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) introduced a bill aimed at limiting methane emissions from oil and gas operations on May 14. “If we’re going to be serious about fixing the climate crisis, we have to be serious about curbing the release of methane into …
Two US Department of Energy national laboratories and ExxonMobil Corp. plan to invest as much as $100 million over 10 years to advance lower emissions energy technologies that could be brought to a commercial scale. The agreement involving DOE’s Nation…
The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued revised offshore blowout preventer (BOP) and well control regulations on May 2. The changes remove unnecessary regulatory burdens while maintaining safety and environmental protections, US De…
US House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders strongly criticized the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration for not implementing more congressional mandates in the 2011 and 2016 federal pipeline safety authorizations as a subcommit…
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed S.B. 181, which imposes new restrictions on oil and gas activities in the state, into law on Apr. 16. The measure was designed to strengthen local governments’ authority over such operations, its sponsors said when …
Lower fossil fuel releases are continuing to help drive US greenhouse gas emissions lower, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s latest annual report showed. EPA said 2017’s GHG emissions totaled 6,456.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (…
The American Petroleum Institute and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers separately criticized US Senate legislation that would expand to 200,000 the number of electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles eligible for a $7,500 federal tax credi…