Alaska seeks voluntary offset developers for state forests

Published 21:29 on August 9, 2024  /  Last updated at 21:29 on August 9, 2024  / /  Americas, Nature-based, US, Voluntary

Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will hire contractors to develop, register, market, and sell forest-based carbon offset projects on state land, according to a request for proposals (RFP) published Friday.

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Canadian partnership to test robotic tree planting for carbon offsets

Published 01:46 on August 9, 2024  /  Last updated at 01:46 on August 9, 2024  / /  Americas, Canada, Nature-based, Voluntary

Two Canadian companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Thursday to test and validate an autonomous tree planting technology for the generation of voluntary carbon offsets.

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Minnesota concludes Summit CO2 pipeline to have net emissions benefit

Published 03:26 on August 3, 2024  /  Last updated at 03:26 on August 3, 2024  / /  Americas, US, Voluntary

Minnesota agencies released the final environmental impact statement (EIS) of Summit Carbon Solutions’ (SCS) CO2 pipeline on Wednesday, concluding that the project’s impact on health and the environment would be limited within the in-state stretch of the project.

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Alaska signs CCUS bill into law

Published 21:30 on August 2, 2024  /  Last updated at 21:30 on August 2, 2024  / /  Americas, US, Voluntary

Governor Mike Dunleavy (R) of Alaska signed the state’s first carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) bill into law Thursday, outlining the state’s authority over projects as well as permit requirements, fees, and public hearings required of operators.

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US-based startup raises $6 mln to produce sustainable aviation fuel from CO2

Published 01:44 on August 2, 2024  /  Last updated at 01:44 on August 2, 2024  / /  Americas, Aviation/CORSIA, US

A US-based startup has raised a $6 million seed round to scale its direct air capture-to-sustainable aviation fuel (DAC-to-SAF) technology, it announced Thursday.

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RD credit generation to push the swell of Canada clean fuels bank to 10.4 mln credits by 2030, analysts say

Published 01:27 on August 1, 2024  /  Last updated at 01:42 on August 1, 2024  / /  Americas, Canada, RINs & LCFS, US

Renewable diesel (RD) will comprise a majority of credit generation in Canada’s Clean Fuel Regulation (CFR) market by 2030, analysts told a webinar Wednesday, as an industry association speaker pointed to factors that could impact the actualisation of that trajectory.

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California Senate will pursue cap-and-trade reauthorisation next year

Published 01:32 on July 30, 2024  /  Last updated at 01:32 on July 30, 2024  / /  Americas, US

The California Senate, led by the Senate president, will pursue programme reauthorisation of the state’s cap-and-trade next year, Carbon Pulse has learned.

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Wildfires burning at least 13,000 acres of offset project under California regulator ARB, research group estimates

Published 01:29 on July 30, 2024  /  Last updated at 01:29 on July 30, 2024  / /  Americas, Canada, US

A research group estimates 13,000 acres (5,300 ha) of a California regulator ARB-approved offset project have burned in Washington state as of Friday, potentially marking the project’s fourth unintentional reversal in its lifetime, as at least four other compliance offset projects burn in California Monday.

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Michigan governor vetoes ethanol tax credit from state budget

Published 01:17 on July 27, 2024  /  Last updated at 01:17 on July 27, 2024  / /  Americas, RINs & LCFS, US

Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) vetoed an ethanol tax credit from the state budget on Wednesday to the dismay of the biofuels industry, although a market observer considered the subsidy to have a minimal impact on Renewable Identification Number (RIN) prices.

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US appeals court rejects EPA denials of small refinery biofuel waivers

Published 23:32 on July 26, 2024  /  Last updated at 23:32 on July 26, 2024  / /  Americas, RINs & LCFS, US

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2022 decision to deny small refinery waivers under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) was rejected in a federal appeals court Friday.

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