AEP Delays Carbon-Capture Plans On Climate Policy Uncertainty, Economic Woes

... on hold and ending its cooperative agreement with the US Energy Department, one of its partners on the project to advance the technology to commercial scale, pointing to the uncertain status of US climate policy and the continued weak economy. ...
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Administration Grossly Underestimated Carbon Cost, Says Study

Bell co-authored the policy brief "More than Meets the Eye: The Social Cost of Carbon in US Climate Policy, in Plain English" with Dianne Callan of the Environmental Law Institute. "The point is it's a very, very imperfect process," she said. ...
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AEP Places Carbon Capture Commercialization on Hold, Citing Uncertain Status

... of Energy and placing its plans to advance carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technology to commercial scale on hold, citing the current uncertain status of US climate policy and the continued weak economy as contributors to the decision. ...
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Carbon Tax: Your Questions Answered

To answer these questions and more we had Professor Kevin Parton from the Charles Sturt University Climate Policy expert come on the air today. He not only explained the questions you've been ringing us about all week but also took more questions live ...
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Utility Shelves Ambitious Plan to Limit Carbon

The abandonment of the AEP plant comes in response to a string of reversals for federal climate change policy. President Obama spent his first year in office pushing a goal of an 80 percent reduction in climate-altering emissions by 2050, a target that ...
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Climate action needed now: CSU Professor

AUSTRALIA must reduce its carbon pollution emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 if it is to help the globe avoid catastrophic climate change, according to Charles Sturt university (CSU) climate policy expert Professor Kevin Parton. ...
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Another economist rejects claim coal industry is on the way out

A prominent economist on climate policy says Australian coal mines will continue to supply the world for a long time to come. Professor Warwick McKibbin, director of the Australian National University School of Economics, and the Climate and Energy ...
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Australia at plus 4°C: Not so hot

Of all the players in Australia's climate policy debate, farmers might have the right to feel among the most maligned. Since the release on Sunday of the federal government's carbon pricing package, the agricultural industry has been crying foul, ...
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On Debt, Death, Taxes and Temperatures

By ANDREW C. REVKIN A few days ago, I had a short e-mail exchange with Vaclav Smil, a master analyst of risks and resources, on strokes and aging, climate policy, the global debt crisis and a few other light subjects. I've excerpted our chat below in ...
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