All Posts Tagged With: "CO2 emissions"

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DOE Announces $67 Million Investment for
Carbon Capture Development

Two Colorado-based companies are participating in the program: ION Engineering in Boulder and Littleton-based
ADA-ES, Inc. The projects are part of the Administration’s
goal of developing cost-effective deployment of CCS technologies within 10 years, with an objective of bringing five
to 10 commercial demonstration projects online by 2016.

7Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Commentary: Colorado’s Big Carbon Spill

In recent weeks, Xcel has begun full operation of the new 750 MW coal plant in Pueblo. While Pueblo bears all of the pollution from the coal plant, essentially all of the electricity will be used in places like Denver and Boulder; Pueblo, already the home of two other Xcel coal plants, gets almost none of the electricity.

27May2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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National Media Coverage –
Xcel-erating Natural Gas in Colorado

The state’s largest utility has come to an agreement with the state government where it would retire coal plants powering about 900 megawatts by 2017 and replace them with natural gas-fired power. This move will mean a 30 percent reduction in Xcel’s Colorado coal fleet and a cut of as much as 5 million tons a year in carbon pollution.

29Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Clean Air-Clean Jobs Act Generating
Widespread Support

“Republicans and Democrats, power companies and energy producers, doctors and conservationists all have worked together to craft this smart, clean air solution for Colorado,” said Vickie Patton, a senior clean air attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund.

22Mar2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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State Task Force to Target Carbon Capture
and Sequestration

The move is intended to help address the cmplex legal, regulatory and policy issues surrounding CO2 capture and sequestration if Colorado’s coal industry is going to succeed in a carbon-constrained economy, said a state official.

11Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Colorado Agriculture Must Go for Clean Energy
or EPA Will Rule

Bennet said he supports a market-based approach, which would allow producers to sequester carbon in the soil and then sell carbon credits to industries that emit things like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.

4Sep2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Coal ‘Elephant’ Stalks Policy Debate

What they didn’t talk about at the Fort Collins forum, at least according to news accounts, was eliminating carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. That’s a big omission: no amount of renewable-energy subsidies, replacement of gas-guzzlers with hybrid vehicles, or R&D on solar power technology is going to mitigate global climate change unless we do something about coal plants, existing and future.

31Aug2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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A Tale of Two Speeches at COGA Meeting in Denver

Speaking before the oil and gas audience in Denver, Gov. Ritter called the natural gas industry a “crucial part of New Energy Economy.” Former Senator Tim Wirth, on the other hand, chastized it for being asleep at the switch when it comes to organization and putting forth a positive agenda.

10Jul2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Ion Engineering in Deal to License
Carbon Capture Technology

The startup company accelerates development of ionic liquid solutions to control greenhouse emissions with licensing agreement with the University of Colorado.

30Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel Reports Major Increase in Renewables Use

According to its 2008 Corporate Responsibility Report, the state’s dominant power provider has reduced emissions and increased the amount of power it gets from renewable energy sources.

27May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Breaking Policy News — U.S. Declares Warming Gases are Health Threat

The Environmental Protection Agency said today that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are a significant threat to human health and thus will be listed as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. HOW or WHAT to regulate is not spelled out. Instead, the EPA and lawmakers are expected to begin that discussion.

17Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Carbon is a Four-Letter Word:
A Treatise to Fuel the Flame (and by doing so, regrettably, discharge some CO2)

Here’s where the science, in some people’s minds, falters. In the big scheme of things, can a case sans reasonable doubt be made that fossil fueled electric generating plants are causing the Wilkins ice shelf to break off and float away? After all, 40% of 3.2% is just 1.3%.

9Apr2009 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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EPA Declaration: Greenhouse Gases Threat to Human Health — Clean Air Act May be Used to Regulate Carbon Gases

It also cautioned that the Obama administration, which sees responding to climate change a top priority, nevertheless is ready to move cautiously when it comes to actually regulating greenhouse gases, preferring to have Congress act.

24Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel Energy and Microgy in Renewable Natural Gas
Supply Agreement

Xcel will use the anaerobic digestion technology to generate carbon-neutral electricity at the company’s Fort St. Vrain Generating Station in Weld County.

4Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Denver Pilot Program Reduces Vehicle Emissions

The “Driving Change” results showed improved driving habits and a 10% reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from participating vehicles of EnCana and Denver City employees.

2Feb2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel’s Fuel Mistakes: Who Should Pay?

Xcel’s biggest blunder was charging ahead with the new billion-dollar Unit 3 coal plant in Pueblo as it attempted to recover from its 2002 stock price crash. As a result, Colorado is now the unlucky owner of one of this country’s last conventional coal plants.

15Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued