Carbon dioxide

DHL Supply Chain Reaches 50-Truck Milestone with Orange EV and Doubles Down with Plans for 100 E-Yard Trucks and Diesel Phase-Out by 2025

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Alternative Vehicles, Fuels, Trucking, EV, Electric Vehicles, Automotive, Transport, Utilities, Alternative Energy, Energy, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, CO2, Multimedia, DHL, Partnership, Element, DHL Supply Chain, Environment, Carbon dioxide, Diageo, Supply chain, Safety, Engineering, Lead, Atmosphere, Renewable energy

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    DHL Supply Chain became Orange EV’s first customer in October 2015 and their first re-order came a year later.
  • “We deeply appreciate our partnership with DHL Supply Chain, now spanning eight years and 50 trucks.
  • When DHL Supply Chain leaned in to purchase Orange EV’s very first electric yard truck, they single-handedly advanced the heavy-duty EV industry,” said Wayne Mathisen, CEO and co-founder of Orange EV.
  • DHL Supply Chain plans to double their current electric yard truck fleet, ultimately deploying 100 Orange EV emission-free trucks.

Civitas Resources Appoints Brad Whitmarsh to Lead Investor Relations Program

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Energy, Utilities, Oil, Gas, Permian, CO2, CIVI, Texas A&M University, Business administration, Noble Energy, Carbon dioxide

Civitas Resources, Inc. (NYSE: CIVI) (“Civitas” or the “Company”) today announced that Brad Whitmarsh has joined Civitas as Vice President, Investor Relations.

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  • Civitas Resources, Inc. (NYSE: CIVI) (“Civitas” or the “Company”) today announced that Brad Whitmarsh has joined Civitas as Vice President, Investor Relations.
  • Mr. Whitmarsh joins Civitas with more than 20 years of leadership experience in the oil and gas industry.
  • Prior to Civitas, Mr. Whitmarsh most recently served as Vice President, Investor Relations for Denbury Inc., a U.S. focused producer utilizing carbon dioxide (CO2) via enhanced oil recovery to produce carbon-negative oil.
  • Prior to Denbury Inc., Mr. Whitmarsh was with Noble Energy Inc., as its Vice President of Investor Relations.

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology Researchers Unveil Useful Strategies for Sustainable Gas Storage and Separation with Clathrate Hydrates

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
CO2, Kinetics, Natural gas, Research, Professor, Temperature, Power, Permafrost, Gas, Accounts of Chemical Research, Hydrogen, Carbon dioxide, Carbon, Climate change, Hydrate, Water, Transport, Clathrate compound

In a new study led by Professor Youngjune Park from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea, a team of researchers has comprehensively reviewed recent research findings, including their own, that address these myriad challenges associated with clathrate hydrates.

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  • In a new study led by Professor Youngjune Park from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea, a team of researchers has comprehensively reviewed recent research findings, including their own, that address these myriad challenges associated with clathrate hydrates.
  • According to Prof. Park: "By exploring the untapped potential of clathrate hydrates, we have effectively mitigated these limitations and provided efficient hydrogen (H2) storage solutions through the introduction of hydrogen-natural gas blends into clathrate hydrates."
  • "This research has significant long-term potential for the gas storage and separation industry, particularly in achieving carbon neutrality.
  • Title of original paper: Advances in Nanomaterials for Sustainable Gas Separation and Storage: Focus on Clathrate Hydrates

Black Bay Energy Capital Acquires Process Technologies & Catalyst Business from Merichem Company

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Other Manufacturing, Environment, Other Energy, Utilities, Chemicals, Plastics, Oil, Gas, Alternative Energy, Manufacturing, Green Technology, Energy, Hydrogen, Partnership, CFO, Partner, Research, Acquisition, Engineering, Hydrogen sulfide, Carbon dioxide, Growth, SVP

Black Bay Energy Capital (“Black Bay”) announced today the acquisition of Merichem Company’s technology business unit, comprised of Merichem Process Technologies and Merichem Catalyst Products, which will collectively be renamed “Merichem Technologies.” Merichem Company will maintain its caustic services business, which handles spent caustic for beneficial reuse.

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  • Black Bay Energy Capital (“Black Bay”) announced today the acquisition of Merichem Company’s technology business unit, comprised of Merichem Process Technologies and Merichem Catalyst Products, which will collectively be renamed “Merichem Technologies.” Merichem Company will maintain its caustic services business, which handles spent caustic for beneficial reuse.
  • Merichem Technologies represents a new sulfur-treating platform for Black Bay, which will be led by Cyndie Fredrick, previously SVP & General Manager of Merichem Company, and joined by the existing management team.
  • Founded in 1945, Merichem Company is a global leader in full-service sulfur removal, caustic treating and spent caustic treatment technologies.
  • Merichem Company CEO Kendra Lee will join the Merichem Technologies board in concert with the acquisition.

Coast redwood trees are enduring, adaptable marvels in a warming world

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024
People, Atlas, Lichen, Sound, Deep Roots, Ecosystem, Science, Risk, Horticulture, Information system, Rain, Pacific Northwest, Research, Tree, California Institute of Technology, Wind, Flood, California condor, Spruce, Fern, Human, Genetic drift, Wetland, Plant, Humanities, Mutation, Oxygen, Climate change, Water, Huntington Library, Thought, Gymnogyps, Face, Carbon dioxide, Torso, Memory, Life, Silviculture

Most of them grow from southern Oregon down into northern California, snugged up against the rugged Pacific coast.

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  • Most of them grow from southern Oregon down into northern California, snugged up against the rugged Pacific coast.
  • Redwoods, like all trees, are engineered marvels.
  • They even have two kinds of leaves that help the trees adapt to both wet and dry conditions.
  • Researchers and horticulturists at the botanical gardens are thinking about trees, and how to integrate them into larger landscapes, in new ways.

Redwood communities

  • A structure or building typically is a sort of island unto itself, separate from its neighbors; in contrast, the coast redwood is an ecosystem with enormously broad consequences for other life forms.
  • Some of these life forms rely on the tree; others on occupants in and around the tree.
  • The coast redwood hosts so many different ecological interactions that it’s faintly ridiculous.
  • Nestled into extensive mats of ferns that grow high up in redwood canopies, researchers find aquatic crustaceans called copepods that normally would live in larger bodies of water.

Enduring but not static

  • Even species as enduring as coast redwoods are affected by climate change.
  • New fire dangers put them at risk, and more frequent floods erode the big trees’ footing.
  • Since these trees are so networked and interconnected, the sum is greater than its parts and isn’t easy to quantify.

New territory

  • I’ve resisted giving names to this duo, although many giant redwoods have monikers like Adventure, Brutus, Nugget, Paradox and Atlas – most named by the scientists who first quantified their extreme heights.
  • The redwoods outside my window are perhaps 100 feet tall – puny by comparison to their northern brethren.


Daniel Lewis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Beta Analytic Defines Biobased

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Carbon, Carbon dioxide, ISO, Plant, Photosynthesis, Biomass, CO2, Climate change, ASTM D6866

Biobased is defined as materials that are derived in whole or in part from biomass resources such as plants and other renewable agricultural, marine, and forestry materials.

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  • Biobased is defined as materials that are derived in whole or in part from biomass resources such as plants and other renewable agricultural, marine, and forestry materials.
  • It is essential that the term Biobased is used accordingly and not commingled with other sustainability characteristics in order to maintain the integrity of all biobased materials and products.
  • Multiple widely accepted Carbon-14 test standards include ASTM D6866, ISO 16620, and EN 16640 for biobased carbon content.
  • The following list includes examples of international certifications and regulations that widely accept the definition of biobased and require third party verification methods.

Trail Carbon Capture Pilot Plant Now Operational 

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Carbon, Tubing (recreation), Teck Resources, Acid, Recycling, Government, Glass, Form, Columbia, News, CCUS, Climate change, Carbon dioxide, CRT, TSX, CO2, Data collection, Renewable energy

TRAIL, British Columbia, Dec. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Teck Resources Limited (TSX: TECK.A and TECK.B, NYSE: TECK) (“Teck”) today announced the Carbon Capture Pilot Plant at its Trail Operations in southern British Columbia is now operating and successfully capturing carbon dioxide (CO2).

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  • TRAIL, British Columbia, Dec. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Teck Resources Limited (TSX: TECK.A and TECK.B, NYSE: TECK) (“Teck”) today announced the Carbon Capture Pilot Plant at its Trail Operations in southern British Columbia is now operating and successfully capturing carbon dioxide (CO2).
  • “This project is part of Teck’s ongoing work to take action on climate change and achieve our long-term goal of net-zero operations by 2050.”
    The Carbon Capture Pilot Plant separates CO2 from the Acid Plant flue gas at Trail Operations at a rate of one tonne per day and will operate through 2024 for testing and data collection purposes.
  • Teck’s Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) pilot project is also evaluating options for the utilization and/or storage of the captured CO2 at Trail Operations.
  • Teck acknowledges the support of the CleanBC Industry Fund for its funding contribution towards the CCUS Pilot Plant Feasibility Study and development of a CO2 storage pilot project.

Save Foods Targeting US Carbon Credit Market with Majority Ownership in Newly- Formed Nitrousink Ltd.

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Thursday, December 7, 2023
Carbon, Environmental science, Climate change, Water, GMO, Research, Ozone, United States Congress, Acquisition, Inflation, Doctor of Philosophy, Congress, Human, Nitrous oxide, Microbial ecology, Investment, N2O, Plant, Climate, USD, Animal, Energy, Carbon dioxide, Nitrogen, Bacteria, CO2, SVFD, Environment, Renewable energy

Neve Yarak, Israel, Dec. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Save Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVFD), an agri-food tech leader, previously entered the carbon credit and greenhouse gas emissions markets, following its acquisition of a majority stake in the newly-formed Nitrousink Ltd.("Nitrousink") a research and development company using technologies developed at the Agricultural Research Organization - Volcani Institute (the “Volcani Institute”), under the leadership of Dr. Dror Minz, PhD in Environmental Microbiology, and the Director of the Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences at the Volcani Institute.

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  • Nitrousink's solution is based on active microorganisms which are completely natural (no GMO) and safe to humans, animals, plants and the environment.
  • According to Global Market Insight , the Carbon Credit Market was valued at $87.9 billion in 2022 and is set to grow at a CAGR of 14.2% from 2023 to 2032.
  • On a per-molecule basis, considered over a 100-year period, nitrous oxide has 265 times the atmospheric heat-trapping ability of carbon dioxide (CO2).
  • In a novel discovery, Dr. Minz found these bacteria are naturally capable of reducing N2O emissions under various environmental conditions.

eFuels Leader Infinium Receives $75M Equity Commitment from Breakthrough Energy Catalyst for Investment in Project Roadrunner

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Structural adjustment, Travel, Partnership, GHG, Roadrunner, PTL, Air travel, Carbon dioxide, Growth, SAF, Aviation, CO2, Creativity, Plastic, Renewable energy

FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Infinium and Breakthrough Energy Catalyst today announced a $75 million project equity investment commitment to support Infinium’s Project Roadrunner, subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions. Project Roadrunner will convert waste carbon dioxide (CO2) and renewable power into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other low-carbon fuels. This first-of-a-kind commercial-scale Power-to-Liquids (PtL) eFuels facility is expected to be the largest PtL eFuels project in North America once operational. Breakthrough Energy Catalyst funds and invests in first-of-a-kind projects that support the deployment of emerging climate technologies to reduce emissions and accelerate the clean energy transition. This commitment represents Catalyst’s first equity investment to date.

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  • FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Infinium and Breakthrough Energy Catalyst today announced a $75 million project equity investment commitment to support Infinium’s Project Roadrunner, subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions.
  • Breakthrough Energy Catalyst funds and invests in first-of-a-kind projects that support the deployment of emerging climate technologies to reduce emissions and accelerate the clean energy transition.
  • In tandem with Catalyst’s investment in Infinium, American Airlines and Infinium have entered into an innovative, firm offtake agreement for Infinium eSAF.
  • American joined Breakthrough Energy Catalyst as an anchor partner to accelerate the development of next-generation clean energy technologies, including SAF.

Graphyte signs first carbon removal purchase agreement with American Airlines

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Carbon, Photosynthesis, Aircraft, Biomass, Climate change, Carbon dioxide, Aviation, CO2, Breakthrough Energy, Renewable energy

“American is focused on accelerating new low-carbon technologies to reduce aviation’s climate impact,” said Jill Blickstein, Chief Sustainability Officer at American. “Hard to abate industries like aviation will need high-quality, permanent, affordable and scalable carbon credits – including removals -- to achieve our emissions reduction goals. We are excited to work with Graphyte to help them scale their important new technology.”

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  • MEMPHIS, Tenn. and FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Graphyte, a carbon removal startup backed by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, today announced that American Airlines will be its inaugural customer, with the purchase of 10,000 tons of permanent carbon removal to be delivered in early 2025.
  • Relative to existing carbon removal approaches, Carbon Casting permanently removes and stores CO2 using significantly less energy and at a substantially lower cost.
  • “This is a landmark agreement for both Graphyte and American Airlines,” said Barclay Rogers, CEO of Graphyte.
  • With its purchase of carbon removal credits from Graphyte, American aims to accelerate and scale the CO2 removal market.