The Great Plains Institute has just released a first-of-its-kind publication titled An Atlas of Carbon and Hydrogen Hubs for United States Decarbonization. The atlas identifies areas of the United States that offer the capacity to help our nation expand and accelerate emissions reductions and carbon removal through focused coordination, deployment, and policy. Continue reading »
Q&A with LanzaTech on Prioritizing Environmental Justice in Carbon Management Projects
December 17, 2021 in Carbon Management Author: Emma Thomley
The Justice 40 Initiative will direct a groundbreaking amount of federal funding for disadvantaged communities historically burdened by industrial waste in the United States. This initiative and voices from the environmental justice movement have inspired companies to focus on equity in their carbon management projects. LanzaTech, a carbon transformation company that recycles carbon oxide emissions (e.g., carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide) to create everyday products, is prioritizing environmental justice in their projects and mission. Continue reading »
GPI’s Matt Fry Will Serve on NASEM Committee on Carbon Utilization, Infrastructure, Markets, Research, and Development
December 15, 2021 in Carbon Management, News & Press Author: Emma Thomley
This week, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) appointed Matt Fry to serve on its Committee on Carbon Utilization, Infrastructure, Markets, Research, and Development. Fry is the state and regional policy manager for the Great Plains Institute’s carbon management program and will work with other committee members to assess carbon utilization infrastructure, research, and development needs. Continue reading »
GPI Works with Colorado Task Force on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration
October 29, 2021 in Carbon Management Author: Emma Thomley
Colorado is solidifying a commitment to reduce emissions made in the state’s latest Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap by developing and implementing strategies to reach net zero. The state’s ambitious and binding goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at least 26 percent by 2025, 50 percent by 2030, and 90 percent by 2050, all below its 2005 levels, require comprehensive climate action, including strategies to decarbonize its industrial sector. To help achieve its goal, Colorado created a diverse CCUS Task Force (CCUS stands for carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration) to research CCUS, engage community members, and provide recommendations to state policy makers. Continue reading »
States Release Action Plan for CO2 Transport Infrastructure & Storage
October 12, 2021 in Carbon Management Authors: Emma Thomley, Matt Fry
The signatory states of the CO2 Transport Infrastructure Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) have released a Regional Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Transport Infrastructure Action Plan which includes potential policies for states to consider to facilitate carbon dioxide (CO2) transport and storage project deployment. The MOU and Action Plan were developed as part of state engagement in the Regional Carbon Capture Deployment Initiative. Continue reading »
Bipartisan Carbon Management Priorities in Congress Highlighted at CO2NNECT Virtual
September 29, 2021 in Carbon Management Author: Emma Thomley
The Great Plains Institute hosted the third CO2NNECT Virtual webinar on September 14, Achieving Net-Zero by 2050: Critical Bipartisan Carbon Management Priorities in Congress. Continue reading »
GPI Statements on Nomination of Brad Crabtree to U.S. Department of Energy
September 2, 2021 in Carbon Management, News & Press Author: Rebecca Lentz
Statement from Rolf Nordstrom, President & CEO, Great Plains Institute
Today we learned that President Biden’s Administration has nominated Great Plains Institute’s Brad Crabtree as Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management within the Department of Energy. Brad has spent nearly two decades at GPI, working to build broad consensus around energy policies that meet our climate obligations and maintain a strong economy—and then see those policies enacted. He has played an outsized role in making carbon capture in all its forms part of the nation’s arsenal of emissions reductions strategies that also bring economic opportunity.
Great Plains Institute Joins More than 160 Labor Unions, Conservation and Environmental NGOs, and Industry Organizations to Urge Congress to Scale Carbon Management Priorities
August 3, 2021 in Carbon Management, News & Press Author: Rebecca Lentz
(Washington, DC) – Today, Great Plains Institute joined more than 160 companies, labor unions, conservation and environmental groups, and other organizations from around the nation in a letter to Congressional leaders urging the inclusion of a comprehensive suite of bipartisan carbon management policies in any larger legislative vehicle this Congress. Continue reading »
Carbon Budget 101: What It Is and Why It Matters
May 20, 2021 in Carbon Management Authors: Dane McFarlane, Elizabeth Abramson
The US—and the world—must dramatically accelerate emissions reductions this decade to prevent dangerous increases in global temperature and achieve a net-zero carbon economy by midcentury. The speed and scale of required reductions can be visualized by looking at our carbon budget. Just like a financial budget sets your spending limits, the carbon budget sets our carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions limits to avoid additional global temperature rise. Continue reading »
Leaders Discuss Scaling Net-Zero Infrastructure at CO2NNECT Virtual
April 27, 2021 in Carbon Management Author: Jill Syvrud
Great Plains Institute hosted the second CO2NNECT virtual event, Scaling Net-Zero Infrastructure: The Climate, Jobs, and Investment Benefits of Deploying CO2 Transport and Storage,” on April 20, 2021.
This virtual event highlighted the essential importance of carbon dioxide (CO2) transport and storage infrastructure in achieving global net-zero emissions and meeting midcentury climate goals, while sustaining and growing a high-wage energy, industrial, and manufacturing jobs base. Continue reading »
