Activists Ramp Up Pressure on Other Insurers After Swiss Company Ditches ‘Climate-Wrecking’ Trans Mountain Pipeline: “Zurich’s decision to drop Trans Mountain demonstrates that it’s waking up the risks of this toxic project to Indigenous land rights, local ecosystems, and the planet,” said Elana Sulakshana, energy finance campaigner at Rainforest Action Network (RAN).

The decades-old pipeline has a long history of spills—including one at a pump station in British Columbia last month—and Indigenous groups and climate campaigners have spent years in court fighting against the expansion project known as TMX.

“Some of Zuirch’s peers in the global insurance industry are also taking note, as eight companies now have policies that limit or end insurance coverage for tar sands,” said Sulakshana. “It’s way past time for Liberty Mutual and Chubb to follow suit.”

Activists Ramp Up Pressure on Other Insurers After Swiss Company Ditches ‘Climate-Wrecking’ Trans Mountain Pipeline: “Zurich’s decision to drop Trans Mountain demonstrates that it’s waking up the risks of this toxic project to Indigenous land rights, local ecosystems, and the planet,” said Elana Sulakshana, energy finance campaigner at Rainforest Action Network (RAN).The decades-old pipeline has a long history of spills—including one at a pump station in British Columbia last month—and Indigenous groups and climate campaigners have spent years in court fighting against the expansion project known as TMX.“Some of Zuirch’s peers in the global insurance industry are also taking note, as eight companies now have policies that limit or end insurance coverage for tar sands,” said Sulakshana. “It’s way past time for Liberty Mutual and Chubb to follow suit.”Read More

New technique to capture carbon dioxide could greatly reduce power plant greenhouse gases: A big advance in carbon capture technology could provide an efficient and inexpensive way for natural gas power plants to remove carbon dioxide from their flue emissions, a necessary step in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow global warming and climate change.

Developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and ExxonMobil, the new technique uses a highly porous material called a metal-organic framework, or MOF, modified with nitrogen-containing amine molecules to capture the CO2 and low temperature steam to flush out the CO2 for other uses or to sequester it underground.

In experiments, the technique showed a six times greater capacity for removing CO2 from flue gas than current amine-based technology, and it was highly selective, capturing more than 90% of the CO2 emitted. The process uses low temperature steam to regenerate the MOF for repeated use, meaning less energy is required for carbon capture.

New technique to capture carbon dioxide could greatly reduce power plant greenhouse gases: A big advance in carbon capture technology could provide an efficient and inexpensive way for natural gas power plants to remove carbon dioxide from their flue emissions, a necessary step in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow global warming and climate change.Developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and ExxonMobil, the new technique uses a highly porous material called a metal-organic framework, or MOF, modified with nitrogen-containing amine molecules to capture the CO2 and low temperature steam to flush out the CO2 for other uses or to sequester it underground.In experiments, the technique showed a six times greater capacity for removing CO2 from flue gas than current amine-based technology, and it was highly selective, capturing more than 90% of the CO2 emitted. The process uses low temperature steam to regenerate the MOF for repeated use, meaning less energy is required for carbon capture.Read More