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Study finds methane emissions from coal mines ~50% higher than previously thought

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The amount of methane released into the atmosphere as a result of coal mining is likely approximately 50% higher than previously estimated, according to research presented at the recent annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The study is one of the first to account for methane leaking from old, abandoned mines.

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Coal Emissions Escape Ukraine

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

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare-earth elements from it. Coal mine drainage (CMD) impairs tens of thousands of kilometers of U.S. waterways each year, in part with the leaching of low concentrations of rare earth elements (REEs). Miranda et al.

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Coal Clean Cleaning West Virginia

Woodside joins Japanese consortium to study exporting carbon-neutral hydrogen as ammonia

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APRIL 7, 2020

Australia-based Woodside has signed an agreement with Japanese companies JERA Inc, Marubeni Corporation and IHI Corporation to undertake a joint study examining the large-scale export of hydrogen as ammonia for use decarbonizing coal-fired power generation in Japan. Green hydrogen is produced from renewable energy using electrolysis.

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Study Concludes Peak Coal Will Occur Close to 2011

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AUGUST 2, 2010

A multi-Hubbert analysis of coal production by Tadeusz Patzek at The University of Texas at Austin and Gregory Croft at the University of California, Berkeley concludes that the global peak of coal production from existing coalfields will occur close to the year 2011. Gt C (15 Gt CO 2 ) per year, according to the study.

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Coal 2011 Global Emissions

HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Coal combustion alone was responsible for half of those deaths, with natural gas and oil combustion accounting for the other half. can vary by country and region, and different parts of the world were impacted by air pollution in different ways. According to HEI’s State of Global Air , PM 2.5 in African countries.

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Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Africa is part of a global toll taken by air pollution, which killed an estimated 6.7 The team studied trends in air pollution in Africa to determine impacts on human health and economic development in 54 African countries. In addition to the toll on human health, air pollution imposes economic costs, the study found.

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Africa Pollution 2019 Ethiopia

Study findings suggest that switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

The study will appear next month in the peer-reviewed journal Climatic Change Letters. The study underscores the complex and sometimes conflicting ways in which fossil fuel burning affects Earth’s climate. —Tom Wigley. Methane is an especially potent greenhouse gas. degree Fahrenheit (less than 0.1 degree Celsius). degrees F (0.1-0.2

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SAF company DG Fuels closes investments with two Japanese companies

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JULY 29, 2023

and an undisclosed investor, DGF has now exceeded its minimum investment target as part of its final round of parent-level development capital needed to fund the remaining expected expenses required to reach FID, including the ongoing FEL 3 and related expenses. With the investments in DGF made by aviner & co., Chishima Real Estate Co.,

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Comparative genome study finds ancestral fungus may have influenced end of coal formation; potential resource for biofuel production

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JUNE 30, 2012

Coal deposits—the fossilized remains of plants—were formed during a 60-million year period from around 360 to 300 million years ago. Instead of accumulating as peat, which eventually was transformed into coal, the great bulk of plant biomass decayed and was released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

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Renewable hydrogen fuel being studied for the Port of Seattle

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two studies—led by a team from Seattle City Light, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and Sandia National Laboratories—are exploring the potential of shifting from fossil fuel to clean hydrogen as fuel to power medium-and heavy-duty vehicles. million DOE award, $150,000 City Light = $1.5 million project total).

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Seattle Hydrogen Renewable Fuel

Study finds climate impact of hydropower varies widely

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

earlier post ), a new study by a team at Environmental Defense Fund finds that the climate impact of hydropower facilities varies widely throughout the world and over time, with some facilities emitting more greenhouse gases than those burning fossil fuels.

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DOE awards U of North Dakota $2.5M to sample and characterize coal-based resources containing rare earth elements

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

million contract to sample and characterize US coal-based resources containing high concentrations of rare earth elements (REEs). The university will also perform a round-robin inter-laboratory study on the analytical methods used to measure the concentration of REEs in US coal-based resources.

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North Dakota Coal Universal Transportation

Updated NETL study provides more detailed economic and environmental assessment of coal-to-liquids and CTL with modest biomass

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MAY 15, 2012

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has released a follow-on study to its 2009 evaluation of the economic and environmental performance of Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) and CTL with modest amounts of biomass mixed in (15% by weight) for the production of zero-sulfure diesel fuel. Earlier post.). —White and Gray.

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New study puts air-pollution related deaths in India in 2019 at 1.67 million

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

billion (US) in economic losses, according to a new study led by researchers from the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health at Boston College, the Indian Council of Medical Research, and the Public Health Foundation of India. billion people, according to Landrigan, whose research was funded in part by UN Environment Programme.

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Pollution India 2019 Boston

Rostec and Shenhua to invest up to $10B into coal mine development and infrastructure in Russian Far East; coal and power

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Russian State Corporation Rostec, one of the largest Russian industrial conglomerates, and Chinese State Corporation Shenhua, the world’s leading producer and distributor of coal, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. High calorific value coal concentrate will be exported to Asia-Pacific countries, mainly to China.

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Coal Power Powered Asia

Linc Energy signs MoU with UK Coal for underground coal gasification collaboration in UK

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with UK Coal Mining Ltd., one of the largest land holders and biggest coal producers in the UK. These sites relate to certain areas of coal within the Warwickshire, Yorkshire and Leicestershire Coalfields surface and underground mine infrastructure and sub-station assets owned by UK Coal.

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Coal Energy Australia Diesel

Study finds high sodium bicarbonate concentrations in water from coal-bed natural gas production harms aquatic life; water treatment can mitigate effects

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JUNE 14, 2012

Produced water from coal-bed natural gas (CBNG) production may contain sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO 3 ) at concentrations that can harm aquatic life, according to a new study by the US Geological Survey; Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks; the Bureau of Land Management and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Farag, A.M.,

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Sodium Water Coal Montana

Study associates in-utero exposure to PM2.5 pollution with higher blood pressure in childhood

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MAY 15, 2018

microns or less (PM 2.5 ) is a form of air pollution produced by motor vehicles and the burning of oil, coal and biomass, and has been shown to enter the circulatory system and negatively affect human health. Researchers examined 1,293 mothers and their children who were part of the large, ongoing Boston Birth Cohort study.

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Accelergy Receives Grant from Pennsylvania for Feasibility Study on Coal-Biomass-to-Liquids

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JULY 15, 2010

The feasibility study is the first step in securing additional state funds for the construction of the Alliance’s first pilot production facility, and as part of the program in Pennsylvania the Alliance will seek opportunities to collaborate with local universities and research centers.

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Pennsylvania Grant Coal Cleaner

Study from Thuringia shows 50% of harmful soot comes from local sources, 50% from long-distance transport

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JUNE 12, 2021

In September/October 2010, extensive measurements took place in Thuringia as part of the Hill Cap Cloud Thuringia 2010 (HCCT-2010) experiment. The main sources were combustion emissions, probably from wood and coal-fired heating systems. More than half of the eBC (52%) was associated with long-range transport (i.e., Poulain et al.

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Transportation Germany Climate Change Climate

China study connects ozone pollution to cardiovascular health

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JULY 17, 2017

Exposure to ozone, long associated with impaired lung function, is also connected to health changes that can cause cardiovascular disease such as heart attack, high blood pressure and stroke, according to a new study of Chinese adults. The team studied 89 healthy adults living in Changsha City, China, for one year.

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Ozone Pollution Connect Connected

DOE to award up to $3M for cost-effective low-concentration CO2 capture or conversion for coal-relevant applications

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JULY 6, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a funding opportunity announcement ( DE-FOA-0001342 ) for cost-effective CO 2 capture or conversion solutions for coal-relevant applications at low concentrations. Proposed technologies should mitigate CO 2 from coal-relevant gases with CO 2 concentrations of.

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Coal Conversion CO2 Hybrid

Seattle City Council passes resolution opposing transportation of coal through Seattle for export, measures for mitigating impact

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MAY 30, 2012

The Seattle City Council unanimously passed Resolution 31379 stating Seattle’s opposition to the transportation of coal through Seattle. There are currently four coal exports under permit review in the Northwest that collectively could increase US coal exports by 150 million tons of coal annually.

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Seattle Coal Transportation Washington

Udokan Copper to cut carbon intensity of copper production up to 75% by 2035

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AUGUST 4, 2022

The mine is part of the Udokan Ore Region that includes the Udokan, Kalar and Kodar ranges. It will also study opportunities to switch from coal to less carbon-intensive fuels for heat generation as well as electrification of the mining fleet. It is part of the diversified USM holding company.

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Carbon Production Russia 2000

'Fossil fuels are dead,' says CSX railroad chief: no more new trains for coal, ever

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JULY 31, 2017

The industrial revolution that began around 1750 was powered in large part by coal, and the carbon-rich fuel had 200 good years after that.

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Coal Climate Change Fuel Climate

DOE selects 9 universities for about $2.7M in advanced coal technologies research awards

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JUNE 7, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine universities for awards for research projects that will continue to support innovation and development of advanced, lower emission coal technologies. The projects selected for awards include: Improved Alloys. DOE Share: $293,519). Brown University.

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Coal Universal Indiana Tennessee

thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

As part of its tkH2Steel transformation project, coal-based blast furnaces will be replaced by hydrogen-powered direct reduction plants. Thus, the Duisburg steelworks is continuing to boil steel as in the past—but with hydrogen and green power instead of coal. —Martina Merz, CEO of thyssenkrupp AG.

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Low CO2 Hydrogen CO2 Power

Linc Energy submits permit for Wyoming underground coal gasification demo facility

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

a permit application and commenced the approval process with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) to build and operate a Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) demonstration plant in its coal tenement lease areas in Wyoming’s. km) of coal within the Wyoming PRB. 20ft (6.1m) coal seam at 2100ft (640m).

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Wyoming Coal Energy Australia

DOE awards $7M to eight oxy-combustion coal technology projects; carbon capture, utilization and storage

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JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. The Energy Department’s $7 million investment—leveraged with recipient cost-share to support approximately $9.4

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Syngas Engages Rentech and GE for Clinton Coal and Biomass to Liquids Project in Australia

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Australia’s Syngas Limited has engaged Rentech to provide Fischer-Tropsch fuels production preliminary engineering services for Syngas’ proposed commercial scale coal and biomass to liquids (CBTL) fuels facility in Southern Australia, known as the Clinton Project. Additionally, the Clinton coal fluidizes well.

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Coal Australia Diesel Oil Prices

Study finds heavy-petroleum fuels raising vanadium emissions; human emissions outpacing natural sources by factor of 1.7

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DECEMBER 16, 2017

Vanadium is a trace metal found in many earth materials, including petroleum and coal. Klein, professor of earth sciences at Duke’s Nicholas School, and Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke’s Nicholas School, conducted the new study with Schlesinger. —William Schlesinger. Schlesinger, Emily M.

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Oil-Sands Emissions Mercury Fuel

Mitsubishi Heavy and Indonesia’s ITB to conduct joint R&D on ammonia-fired power generation by turbine

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

As part of that ongoing initiative, this new research will apply ITB’s expertise in chemical reaction engineering to optimize power generation using ammonia fuel. The project will apply Indonesia’s Institut Teknologi Bandung's (ITB) specialized expertise in chemical reaction engineering to probe optimization of ammonia firing.

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Mitsubishi Indonesia Power Powered

Researchers report mechanocatalytic synthesis of ammonia at room temperature and atmospheric pressure

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DECEMBER 5, 2021

Researchers at the at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung) report the mechanocatalytic synthesis of ammonia over a cesium-promoted iron catalyst under mild conditions—room temperature and pressures down to 1 bar. h, leading to continuous formation of ammonia at values up to 0.26?vol.?%.

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F-150 Coal MPG Hydrogen

MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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AUGUST 29, 2013

2000 (90% CI: 0–4,000) early deaths from ozone, according to the study. The researchers collected data from the year 2005, the most recent data available at the time of the study. Emissions-related deaths from rail activities were comparatively slight, and spread uniformly across the east-central part of the country and the Midwest.

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MIT Emissions Ozone Power

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

Results from the study also suggest that with sufficient coal plant retirement and sufficient wind power, controlled charging could result in positive net benefits instead of negative. other parts of the US and the world could be different. —Weis et al.

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Charging Coal Grid District of Columbia

Anglo American, Aurizon to explore feasibility of hydrogen-powered trains for bulk freight

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Aurizon , Australia’s largest rail freight operator, and leading global mining company Anglo American will work together on a feasibility study to assess the introduction of hydrogen-powered trains for bulk freight. Earlier post.)

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Hydrogen Power Powered South Africa

Duke study finds China’s synthetic natural gas plants will have heavy environmental toll; 2x vehicle GHG if used for fuel

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Coal-powered synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

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Gas Mercury Climate Change Fuel

Modified SOFC anodes allow operation at lower temperatures with carbon-containing gases; potential for much more efficient and cleaner generation of electricity from coal

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JUNE 25, 2011

gasified coal—by eliminating the coking problem. The resulting lower-temperature SOFCs could provide a cleaner, more efficient alternative to conventional power plants for generating electricity from coal reserves. About half of the carbon dioxide is then recirculated back to gasify the coal to coal gas to continue the process.

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Coal Carbon Cleaner Water

Study suggests city center pollution doubles risk of calcium build-up in arteries

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APRIL 29, 2012

City center residents who took part in a study were almost twice as likely to suffer from coronary artery calcification (CAC), which can lead to heart disease, than people who lived in less polluted urban and rural areas, according to research published in the May issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine.

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Study: 87% of world’s population in 2013 lived in areas exceeding WHO PM2.5 guidelines

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DECEMBER 6, 2015

annual average), according to a major international study published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Additionally, the study found that the population-weighted mean concentrations of ozone increased globally by 8.9% grid cell level were evident in the Eastern US, Europe, Russia and in parts of Southeast Asia.

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Elkem to test first carbon capture pilot for silicon smelters

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

The smelting furnace is fed with quartz and various types of carbonaceous materials: coke, coal, charcoal and wood chippings. Ferrosilicon is produced in a furnace similar to a silicon furnace, but with iron-containing raw materials as part of the charge mix added in the smelting furnace.

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Carbon Norway Climate Emissions

Indonesia’s Antam to start building new nickel smelter, HPAL plant in 2025 – ET Auto

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The projects are part of Antam’s deal with CBL to develop an “ecosystem” to produce materials used in batteries for electric vehicles (EV), and part of Indonesia’s bigger ambition to set up itself as a production hub for EVs. Most nickel processing facilities in Indonesia are currently powered by coal.

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Building Indonesia Auto Gas-Electric

DOE Regional Partnership Initiates CO2 Injection in Lignite Coal Seam

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MARCH 11, 2009

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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Coal CO2 North Dakota South Dakota

Poor air quality to remain a problem in India despite pollution control policies

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APRIL 1, 2019

According to an independent study by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW), more than 674 million Indian citizens are likely to breathe air with high concentrations of PM 2.5 The study found that this share will increase to 1.4–1.7% concentrations.

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Pollution India Emissions 2015

Study finds methane emissions from coal mines ~50% higher than previously thought

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

Woodside joins Japanese consortium to study exporting carbon-neutral hydrogen as ammonia

Study Concludes Peak Coal Will Occur Close to 2011

HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

Study findings suggest that switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate

SAF company DG Fuels closes investments with two Japanese companies

Comparative genome study finds ancestral fungus may have influenced end of coal formation; potential resource for biofuel production

Renewable hydrogen fuel being studied for the Port of Seattle

Study finds climate impact of hydropower varies widely

DOE awards U of North Dakota $2.5M to sample and characterize coal-based resources containing rare earth elements

Updated NETL study provides more detailed economic and environmental assessment of coal-to-liquids and CTL with modest biomass

New study puts air-pollution related deaths in India in 2019 at 1.67 million

Rostec and Shenhua to invest up to $10B into coal mine development and infrastructure in Russian Far East; coal and power

Linc Energy signs MoU with UK Coal for underground coal gasification collaboration in UK

Study finds high sodium bicarbonate concentrations in water from coal-bed natural gas production harms aquatic life; water treatment can mitigate effects

Study associates in-utero exposure to PM2.5 pollution with higher blood pressure in childhood

Accelergy Receives Grant from Pennsylvania for Feasibility Study on Coal-Biomass-to-Liquids

Study from Thuringia shows 50% of harmful soot comes from local sources, 50% from long-distance transport

China study connects ozone pollution to cardiovascular health

DOE to award up to $3M for cost-effective low-concentration CO2 capture or conversion for coal-relevant applications

Seattle City Council passes resolution opposing transportation of coal through Seattle for export, measures for mitigating impact

Udokan Copper to cut carbon intensity of copper production up to 75% by 2035

'Fossil fuels are dead,' says CSX railroad chief: no more new trains for coal, ever

DOE selects 9 universities for about $2.7M in advanced coal technologies research awards

thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

Linc Energy submits permit for Wyoming underground coal gasification demo facility

DOE awards $7M to eight oxy-combustion coal technology projects; carbon capture, utilization and storage

Syngas Engages Rentech and GE for Clinton Coal and Biomass to Liquids Project in Australia

Study finds heavy-petroleum fuels raising vanadium emissions; human emissions outpacing natural sources by factor of 1.7

Mitsubishi Heavy and Indonesia’s ITB to conduct joint R&D on ammonia-fired power generation by turbine

Researchers report mechanocatalytic synthesis of ammonia at room temperature and atmospheric pressure

MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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

Anglo American, Aurizon to explore feasibility of hydrogen-powered trains for bulk freight

Duke study finds China’s synthetic natural gas plants will have heavy environmental toll; 2x vehicle GHG if used for fuel

Modified SOFC anodes allow operation at lower temperatures with carbon-containing gases; potential for much more efficient and cleaner generation of electricity from coal

Study suggests city center pollution doubles risk of calcium build-up in arteries

Study: 87% of world’s population in 2013 lived in areas exceeding WHO PM2.5 guidelines

Elkem to test first carbon capture pilot for silicon smelters

Indonesia’s Antam to start building new nickel smelter, HPAL plant in 2025 – ET Auto

DOE Regional Partnership Initiates CO2 Injection in Lignite Coal Seam

Poor air quality to remain a problem in India despite pollution control policies

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