Blame geography for the U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier…
And the recent catastrophes have been severe enough to significantly alter the geography of affected areas.
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The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced three separate settlements with natural gas processors that will require the companies to pay a combined $9.25 million in civil penalties and make improvements at 25 gas processing plants and 91 compressor stations. These settlements will reduce harmful air pollution and improve air quality in 12 states, including in communities disproportionately impacted by pollution and in Indian Country. The states of Alabama, Colorado, Louisiana, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming, and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, are also settling claims against the companies.
When fully implemented, the combined settlements with The Williams Companies Inc., MPLX LP and WES DJ Gathering LLC fka Kerr-McGee Gathering LLC will reduce ozone-producing air pollution by an estimated 953 tons per year and greenhouse gases by 50,633 tons per year of carbon dioxide equivalent, including methane. This reduction equates to taking 11,267 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles off the road for one year. The settlements, lodged simultaneously today in the Federal District Courts of Colorado and Utah, resolve allegations that the companies violated the Clean Air Act and state air pollution control laws.
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Yeah. That’s not going to do the job & it requires more energy to implement. Fusion will not be here in the time left before disaster.
Renewables have proven they’re ready, economical and can take over a huge percentage of of need quickly. We need to vastly increase implementation.
Sell off a ton more offshore wind power leases yesterday, Joe!
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Did anyone honestly think CO2 removal technology was going to save things, as opposed to just an excuse to do nothing else? I know it’s been mentioned but don’t remember any mass investment into making it actually happen.
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They’re probably trying to use capture pollution swaps with companies that say they’ll do that work- while actually doing nothing.
“We’re as much a victim as everyone else!”
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Plenty of tech-dude-bros seemed to…
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Spot on, IMHO. A tiny fraction of the energy going in succeeds in storing carbon, and that energy could be used at 100% efficiency to displace carbon-based energy generation. So yeah, absent near-gratis and otherwise useless energy, it’s a waste of effort.
The following article, however, is downright hopeful. TIL lots of useful crops are shade tolerant, especially when that shade is in parts of the world where soil is getting slowly smelted into glass by climate change.
Edit: More from the Fraunhofer Institute:
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