"Vistra president and CEO Jim Burke stated: 'With demand for electricity growing at a rapid pace, reliable sources of power, like Comanche Peak, are going to be absolutely essential to meeting that need.'"
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ExxonMobil’s Plan to Capture Carbon
"One of the proven technologies available that could play a major role is carbon capture and storage, or CCS, the process of sequestering industrial emissions and safely storing them permanently underground. CCS also promises the potential to reduce carbon emissions significantly at a cost competitive to other solutions, especially for the manufacturing sector."
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The American Dream in Crisis for Rural Communities: A review of Grace Olmstead’s Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind
Uprooted argues that our hometowns deserve better. They deserve the second thought that young people neglect to give them when they leave home for school, jobs, relationships and escape.
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Chevron bets on ‘green’ hydrogen
Barbara Grady writes in Trellis about Chevron’s bet on green hydrogen. In Richmond, California, a city plagued by the carbon dioxide, soot and methane emitted by a massive oil refinery owned by Chevron Corp., a startup is building a waste-to-green hydrogen conversion project designed to produce zero-carbon hydrogen for transportation applications. If it succeeds, the...
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Cheniere Operating on All Cylinders for LNG, Carbon-Neutral Shipping
Cheniere is a great example of an energy producer and exporter making huge strides toward sustainability. For American market-based environmentalists, this form of corporate responsibility is more than laudable; it is the future.
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Shell wins appeal against landmark Dutch climate ruling
Oil and gas major Shell (SHEL.L) on Tuesday won an appeal against a landmark ruling that required it to accelerate carbon reduction efforts, dealing a blow to campaigners who have turned to legal channels to pursue climate action. The appeals court in The Hague said Shell had a responsibility to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to protect people from global warming....
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I’m a plastics industry CEO. We have a responsibility for plastic waste
"To enhance our current recycling infrastructure, a privately funded, industry-led extended producer responsibility plan is a pragmatic solution."
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2022 EQS 580 4Matic: Mercedes’s Answer to the Tesla Model S
The EQS’s biggest flex is the outrageous MBUX Hyperscreen dash display—56 inches wide, like the car has its own drive-in—backed by eight CPU cores and 24 GB of RAM.
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Strategic Biofuels Achieves Major Project Milestone Towards World’s First Carbon Negative Renewable Diesel Plant
Louisiana-based diesel Strategic Biofuels has successfully completed a carbon capture and sequestration test program at its Louisiana Green Fuels Project.
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Kerry to Press China to Stop Financing Coal-Fired Energy Projects
"Beijing doesn’t want to be seen as caving in to pressure from the West, say people familiar with Chinese policy makers’ thinking. Instead, China has been trying to position itself as a major global player in fighting climate change on its own terms."
