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EPA finalizes rules to foster safe carbon storage technology actions part of efforts to reduce barriers to widespread deployment of carbon capture and sequestration, an important set of technologies to combat climate change
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized two rules related to the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide. Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies have the potential to enable large emitters of carbon dioxide, such as coal fired power plants, to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This technology allows carbon dioxide to be captured at stationary sources like power plants and large industrial operations and injected underground for long-term storage in a process called geologic sequestration.
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Climate Action: Commission asks 7 Member States to speed up the adoption of measures to implement EU legislation on aviation emissions
The European Commission is asking Cyprus, Estonia, France, Greece, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to speed up the adoption of legislative and administrative measures necessary for inclusion of the aviation sector in the EU`s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). To date these seven Member States have not transposed the EU ETS aviation legislation into national law. On the recommendation of Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, the Commission is sending a reasoned opinion to the Member States concerned. Failing compliance, the Commission may refer the cases to the European Court of Justice.
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