Gas, Pollution and West Virginia

Department of Interior awards initial $560M to 24 states to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2022

The Department of the Interior awarded an initial $560 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 24 states to begin work to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells. West Virginia. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes $4.7-billion billion to plug orphaned wells. Mississippi. *. New Mexico. North Dakota.

West Virginia

West Virginia Mississippi Plug Wyoming

As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Natural gas. This brief study analyzes, for each individual state, the changes from 2018 to 2020 in the use of coal (one of the two most polluting energy sources) to generate electricity. West Virginia. West Virginia. West Virginia. Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro.

Coal

Coal West Virginia North Dakota Cleaner

OSU team develops process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare earth elements

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JANUARY 4, 2023

In an open-access paper in the journal Environmental Engineering Science , the team reports that the process successfully cleaned clean coal mine drainage while producing rare-earth elements in samples from various rivers across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. —Jeff Bielicki.

Coal

Coal Clean Cleaning West Virginia

Are EVs Charged Mostly By Coal Power in the US?

EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

Last year I wrote an article — Electric Vehicles Have Lower Well-to-Wheel Emissions in All 50 States and DC Than Gas-Powered Vehicles — looking at “well to wheel” from the US Department of Energy and my own analysis of EV sales and source of electricity by state. times the number of EVs than households in West Virginia.

Coal

Coal West Virginia Power Powered

NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

Sensing and Educating the Nexus to Sustain Ecosystems (SENSE) This project expands and enhances the capabilities of Kentucky and West Virginia to study surface water, providing a foundation for understanding how agriculture and hydropower production affect water quality. Murray State University. David White.

Water

Water Puerto Rico West Virginia Energy

DOE to award ~$13.5M to 16 R&D projects for solid-oxide fuel cell technologies

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JULY 2, 2018

SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. Multi-Gas Sensors for Enhanced Reliability of SOFC Operation. LG Fuel Cell Systems Inc.

Fuel

Fuel South Carolina Low Cost West Virginia

Researchers describe the “where” and “when” of life cycle emissions from gasoline and ethanol in the US

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). The researchers included a sixth pollutant, ammonia (NH 3 ).

Gasoline

Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Pollution

CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

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APRIL 16, 2015

Stacked bars show the change in generation cost combined with the median damages by pollutant assuming the 2010 social cost of carbon given by the Office of Management and Budget ($31 in $2010). However, this shift results in increased externality costs of health and environmental damages from increased air pollution.

Charging

Charging Coal Grid District of Columbia

Berkeley Lab team building new total cost of ownership model for fuel cells; intrinsic and external benefits

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Another part of the cost equation normally not considered by manufacturers is that fuel cells can often be used to heat hot water in a building, which could save building owners on expenses such as hot water heaters and natural gas use.

Cost Of

Cost Of Building Fuel West Virginia

Chilled Ammonia Pilot Project Captures 90% of CO2

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Units 1 and 2 at the Pleasant Prairie Power Plant (P4) recently were retrofitted with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems to control emissions of nitrous oxides (NO x ) and wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems to control sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions. This retrofit also included the construction of a new chimney.

EPRI

EPRI CO2 Coal Carbon

Parker Hannifin gaining traction with RunWise HD hydraulic hybrid; developing CNG-based HD system, next-gen MD system

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The brake energy recovery system converts the vehicle’s kinetic energy into stored energy by compressing nitrogen gas in a storage device called an accumulator. RunWise improves upon the typical gains achieved by using natural gas as a fuel source. CNG concept. Low-speed cycle. CO 2 (g/mi). kNOx (g/mi). THC (g/mi).

Hybrid

Hybrid MPH Diesel West Virginia

SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

Low-input cultivation of perennial plants, e.g. from short-rotation forestry and grasslands, may be an effective source of cellulosic biomass and provide environmental benefits (reduced pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions). Ravindranath et al. Nitrogen effects: N 2 O and run-off. while noting that the analysis “.has

Conversion

Conversion Water Emissions 2009

3 More Reasons I’m Happy I Dumped the Democrats

Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

It was always an easy choice because the Republicans were so clearly the party of phonies, hypocrites and mean-spirited, self-centered, big business boot-licking, environment-hating pollution-lovers. And what a surprise, one of them, Congressman Nick Rahall, is from the Black Lung state of West Virginia.

Climate Change

Climate Change West Virginia Climate Minnesota

3 More Reasons I’m Happy I Dumped the Democrats

Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

It was always an easy choice because the Republicans were so clearly the party of phonies, hypocrites and mean-spirited, self-centered, big business boot-licking, environment-hating pollution-lovers. And what a surprise, one of them, Congressman Nick Rahall, is from the Black Lung state of West Virginia.

Climate Change

Climate Change West Virginia Climate Minnesota

EV Driven

Department of Interior awards initial $560M to 24 states to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells

As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

OSU team develops process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare earth elements

Are EVs Charged Mostly By Coal Power in the US?

NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

DOE to award ~$13.5M to 16 R&D projects for solid-oxide fuel cell technologies

Researchers describe the “where” and “when” of life cycle emissions from gasoline and ethanol in the US

CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

Berkeley Lab team building new total cost of ownership model for fuel cells; intrinsic and external benefits

Chilled Ammonia Pilot Project Captures 90% of CO2

Parker Hannifin gaining traction with RunWise HD hydraulic hybrid; developing CNG-based HD system, next-gen MD system

SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

3 More Reasons I’m Happy I Dumped the Democrats

3 More Reasons I’m Happy I Dumped the Democrats

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