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EPA plans to make greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting mandatory

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:44:25 +0000

The U.S. EPA and other international government agencies have stated that carbon dioxide is a great danger to the health of the public in general and will be strictly regulated in the near future. A measuring, managing, and mitigating greenhouse gas emission places the foundation for future carbon emissions trading schemes within the United States. The European Union has worked on carbon emissions reductions as part of The Kyoto Protocol for a number of years. Later in 2009, the world leaders will meet again to hammer out details for the successor to The Kyoto Protocol. The U.S. under leadership form President Obama plan to be active participants.

Source: Daniel Stouffer Originally published Mar. 2009

USA To Regulate Power Station CO2 Emissions

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:27:38 +0000

EPA will regulate greenhouse gases,
says US climate chief

Regulator will rule that carbon dioxide is a danger to public health under Clean Air Act

24 Feb 2009

Per Capita CO2 Emissions Power Stations

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will regulate carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power stations, Barack Obama’s climate chief said this week.

Carol Browner, special adviser to the president on climate change, said in an interview on Sunday at the Western Governors’ Association meeting in Washington that the EPA is looking at a ruling from a Supreme Court in 2007 that requires the agency to decide whether CO2 emissions are a danger to public health and ” will make an endangerment finding”. [ Refer to our 17th February Entry http://www.climatecleanup.net/blog/epa-urged-to-act-on-climate-change ]

The decision will overrule a memo issued in the final days of the Bush administration that said that carbon dioxide emissions need not be considered when approving applications for new power plants.

The move would mean coal-fired power plants would be unlikely to receive the go-ahead without developing Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology [ or use our Black Box CO2 Emission Reduction Technology refer http://www.climatecleanup.net/blog/black-box ] . It could also open up heavy polluters to legal action by those who say they are affected by CO2 emissions.

When the review of the Supreme Court decision was announced last week, a permit application for a new coal-fired plant in Oklahoma was withdrawn within hours.

Many in the industry have argued that such a stringent change to policy should come through rules passed by Congress, rather than a decision by the regulator.

Browner also announced that the Obama administration is seeking to establish national rules for regulating emissions from cars.

“The hope across the administration is that we can have a unified national policy when it comes to cleaner vehicles,” Browner said.

But the Washington Post reports that rather than bypassing Congress on this policy, it is more likely that the Obama administration will seek to regulate it through a Congress-agreed cap-and-trade scheme, which would generate much-needed revenues for the federal government.

“The administration is engaged with Congress to pass cap-and-trade legislation, which the president believes is far superior to a regulatory approach using the existing Clean Air Act,” an official told the Washington Post.

“If [the EPA] finds that greenhouse gases endanger health or welfare, the next steps would be taken thoughtfully and with input from all stakeholders.”

The state of California is waiting to hear from the federal government whether or not it can regulate its own car emissions.

Source: http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2237090/epa-regulate-greenhouse-gases

Environmental Carbon Policies President Obama And CO2 Reduction

admin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:08:37 +0000

Climate Cleanup’s Green Tech Project To Help Sustain Life On Planet Earth!

President Obama Takes The Lead

President Barack Obama leaves no doubt that his administration will move aggressively to address “long overdue” energy and environmental issues and, in a pointed reversal of U.S. policy under George W. Bush, he said that “ideology will no longer trump sound science.”

He said carbon emissions must be reduced to stem the ill effects of climate change, and oil consumption must be reduced to protect national and economic security from over-reliance on oil imports. That’s the correct way of looking at the Climate Change issue.

If deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are required to meet the UNFCCC [The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] goal of stabilization of anthropogenic (man made) greenhouse gas emissions (of which carbon dioxide is the main culprit) – then one thing is clear, we must move fast, very fast. In 2007, US greenhouse gas emissions totaled 7.28Bt [billion tonnes] carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e).

The capture and storage of CO2 from fossil fuel combustion could play an important part in solving this problem. However, widespread use of a newly available CO2 Emissions Reduction Black Box Device promoted by Climate Cleanup’s Green Tech Group could achieve rapid reduction of CO2 emissions without the need for a rapid change in the energy supply infrastructure.

Green Tech Group

In the long-term the world’s energy system may have to be based on non-fossil energy sources. Decarbonizing the use of fossil fuels, by capture and storage of CO2, would help the transition to a future carbon-free energy system. However, reducing current CO2 emissions by using our CO2 Reduction Black Box Device will ensure the rapid solution to saving the environment and life as we know it on planet Earth.

Today, there are many advocates of delaying needed actions and influencing government and the world’s population to wait for the emergence of alternate and renewable fuel sources to fossil fuels. There is no guarantee whatsoever that the public will not be held to ransom by the suppliers of new fuels as they are currently by the fossil fuel providers. This is the wrong target. We must act NOW and actually reduce CO2 emissions first!

The point is, it is not necessarily the fuel source that is the cause of the excess carbon dioxide CO2 pollution problem. The actual problem is not acting to reduce the existing emissions, and this has primarily been because no universal device had been invented and made available to the world capable of reducing the CO2 emissions. Now there is such a device.