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The Iberian green industrial opportunity: Carbon capture and storage

McKinsey

The EU Emissions Trading System regulatory framework The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) regulatory framework initiated its trial phase in 2005, initially focusing on the power and heat, refinery, cement, iron, steel, glass, and pulp and paper industries. Power generation is not included. percent, dropping to around 0.8 3 Assuming a 4.3

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What Wasn’t Printed: The Strong Case for PA’s Natural Gas Future

Marcellus Shale Coalition

trillion in public health benefits to Pennsylvania residents between 2005-2023. Natural Gas: The Cornerstone of PA’s Future Natural gas isn’t a step backward – it’s the engine driving Pennsylvania’s future and we’re seeing it unfold right before our eyes. If the Commonwealth’s largest newspapers won’t publish our perspective, we will.

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Michigan 2050 Carbon Neutrality Goal Could Be An Economic Engine - If It Avoids A Rush To Gas

Energy Central

It’s just the fourth such goal nationwide with interim targets of 28% carbon reductions compared to 2005 by 2025, 52% by 2030, and carbon neutrality by 2050, going net negative thereafter. Michigan’s new economywide 2050 carbon neutral proposal vaults it into the vanguard of United States climate ambition.

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America’s productivity engine is sputtering. Fixing it is a $10 trillion opportunity

McKinsey

Since 2005, productivity growth has been lackluster, averaging 1.4% a year, compared to the post-World War II average of 2.2%. That is a problem. Increasing productivity–economic output per unit of input–maintains U.S. competitiveness and improves our quality of life.

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Colombia’s GeoPark appoints Felipe Bayon as its new CEO

Oil & Gas 360º

Mr. Bayon is a mechanical engineer who began his career in 1991 with Shell in field operations and projects and then moved to bp where he worked for 21 years in increasingly important operational and management roles in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, the U.S. in partnership with Oxy a project that grew from 0 to ca. and the U.K.,

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The heart of the US oil boom is slowing

Oil & Gas 360º

The turnaround came when engineers figured out how to inject a mix of water, sand and chemicals at extremely high pressure into shale formations, cracking them apart to reveal the natural gas and oil deposits within. Production increased from roughly 90,000 barrels of crude a day in 2005 to 1.5 million in 2019.

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Federal Circuit Holds U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Not Liable for Hurricane Katrina Flood Damage

The Energy Law

Army Corps of Engineers liable under the Tucker Act for flood damage to the Plaintiffs’ properties. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and catastrophically flooded St. On April 20, 2018, it reversed a decision of the United States Court of Federal Claims (“Claims Court”), which had held the U.S.