All Posts Tagged With: "CO2 emissions"

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Coal To Natural Gas - It’s Happening Now
in the Power Industry

The most optimistic projections describe an abundant domestic energy source that will create enormous numbers of jobs and lead to cleaner skies. Nationwide, the electricity generated by gas-fired plants has risen by more than 50 percent over the last decade, while coal-fired generation has declined slightly.

16Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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A Cleantech Venture Capitalist Who is Unconvinced of Man-Made Climate Change

Go ahead — call me a hypocrite. I claim to be a cleantech venture capitalist yet I tell you here and now that I am not convinced of anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change (aka global warming). And I will audaciously tell you that my convictions on climate change in no way run contrary to my strong belief in the need for a cleantech revolution.

19Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Environmentalists Renew Attack on Wyoming Coal That Fuels Plant

Their effort is directed at the potential expansion of a mine served by both the Union Pacific and BNSF Railway, and from which comes fuel for the Laramie River Station, a generating plant that is owned in part by Lincoln Electric System.

12Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Utility, Leery of Epa, Eyes Wyoming’s First Natural Gas Power Plant in Coal-Crazed State

Black Hills is making the $237 million move in anticipation of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules regulating mercury and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from coal-fired power plants. About 90 percent of the electricity generated in Wyoming comes from coal, which is abundant and cheap in the Powder River Basin.

21Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Still Has an Ozone Problem

Delaying the implementation of a new ozone standard until 2013 may actually put more pressure on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to move forward with a recommended “non-attainment” designation for all of Sublette and parts of Sweetwater and Fremont counties due to the ongoing ozone problem.

9Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Carbon Storage Drilling Underway in Wyoming

The crew from Baker Hughes, a Houston, Texas-based oil services company, is not even searching for oil, but for something far more elusive: a leak-proof place to permanently store carbon dioxide emissions from coal-burning power plants to curtail global warming pollution.

11Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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New Fuel Efficiency Standards for Trucks

Manufacturers will be required to begin selling more fuel-efficient vehicles by 2014, with a larger wave of reductions timed for 2018. The heavy duty truck industry supports the new rules.

9Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Power CO2-Cutting Benefit Challenged

A Colorado-based energy research firm is challenging the assumption that wind power runs clean and reduces CO2 emissions in a big way. It says an analysis of real-world data shows in most areas of the country, the CO2 savings from wind “are either so small as to be insignificant or too expensive to be practical.”

2Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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With ‘Wild Lands’ Canceled, Oil Still Spills
in Wyoming

Which is more politically motivated: Congress or the Interior department? The answer to that question depends on whether your party holds sway in the White House or in Congress.

19Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Report: Energy Efficiency Vital But Ignored

Among the findings: Companies and individuals tend to invest in assets and products they can see, feel and touch. Energy efficiency does not necessarily meet these criteria and must compete with other, more tangible business priorities.

31Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Ozone Mitigation Efforts Continue in Sublette County

The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality reported a reduction in industrial activities in response to last week’s ozone alerts in Sublette County, but still found some emissions-causing activities taking place.

10Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Expansion of World’s Largest CO2 Capture Plant near LaBarge Complete

“This expansion will result in lower greenhouse gas emissions and help maximize the recovery of Wyoming’s oil resources,” said Randy Broiles, vice president, Americas, ExxonMobil Production Company.

17Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Field Test a Success for Methane Separation
From Well Water

The test shows potential to capture valuable hydrocarbon resources from subsurface water while reducing fugitive emissions from coalbed methane (CBM) operations.

12Jul2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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Study Says Natural Gas Use Likely to Double

The increase, the report concluded, will come largely at the expense of coal and will be driven both by abundant supplies of natural gas — made more available by shale drilling — and by measures to restrict the carbon dioxide emissions that are linked to climate change.

3Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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