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Flaring practices allow more methane into the atmosphere than thought; simple fixes can have big impact

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The new data suggests we have overestimated flaring’s effectiveness and, as a result, underestimated its contribution to methane emissions and climate change. Multiple flares observed in operation in the Bakken Formation in the Williston Basin in North Dakota, 2021. A paper on the work is published in Science.

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Proposed CA LCFS pathways for corn starch ethanol with carbon capture and sequestration: as low as 37 gCO2e/MJ

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North Dakota-based Red Trail Energy (RTE), which since 2007 has operated an ethanol production facility with annual production of about 60 million gallons per year, is proposing sequestration of CO 2 produced from starch fermentation to lower the overall carbon intensity of the fuel for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

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The Sad States of Global Warming & Their Sorry Senators

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Hey, Max Baucus and Jon Tester in Montana – Do either of you US Senators have a clue on climate change? I know you both like to prance in front of the media in cowboy hats, but that phony play acting doesn’t get the job done on climate. We can’t afford your ignorance any longer. Time to cowboy up fellas.

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EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

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Factors such as size, population density, available fuels, types of businesses, climate, all play a role in both total and per capita emissions, the EIA noted. tonnes of CO 2 per person), followed by North Dakota (80.4 Climate Change Emissions' Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6

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Gas War: 25 States Sue EPA Over Updated Emissions Regulations

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.& They’ve been joined by Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming in the suit.& The EPA declined to comment.

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First application of GE ORegen organic rankine cycle waste heat recovery system at Alliance Pipeline Compressor Station in Alberta

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The ORegen technology qualified for partial government funding through the Alberta Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation. billion cubic feet per day of natural gas from British Columbia and northwestern Alberta through Saskatchewan, North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa to a terminal in Chicago.

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DOE Regional Partnership Initiates CO2 Injection in Lignite Coal Seam

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A US Department of Energy/National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) team of regional partners has begun injecting CO 2 into a deep lignite coal seam in Burke County, North Dakota, to demonstrate the economic and environmental viability of geologic CO 2 storage in the US Great Plains region.

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