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September

17

Decarbon Daily - CCS Projects, Emissions, & Climate Trace

BloombergNEF, Schneider Electric Outline Steps Needed to Expand Rooftop Solar

 www.environmentalleader.com
A joint report by research firm BloombergNEF and Schneider Electric entitled Realizing the Potential of Customer-Sited Solar found that 1...

PepsiCo to Reduce Plastic Use, Launch Plant-based Snacks in Green Push

 www.reuters.com
PepsiCo (PEP.O) will cut back on the use of virgin plastic and expand its SodaStream carbonated-water business to more markets amid growi...

Carbon Capture and Storage Gains Wide Industry Support in Houston

 www.prnewswire.com
Eleven companies have expressed interest in supporting the large-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in Houst...

Climate Trace Launches Global Emission Monitoring for Radical Transparency

 www.climatetrace.org
Climate Trace makes meaningful climate action faster and easier by harnessing technology to track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with unp...

Carbon Emitters 'Failing to Disclose Climate Risks'

 www.bbc.com
A lack of detail in financial reporting will dramatically reduce firms' chances of meeting global emissions targets, researchers have war...

What’s Next for Natural Gas with Prices at Their Highest in over 7 Years

 www.marketwatch.com
Natural-gas prices reached their highest levels in more than seven years thanks to a slow recovery in Gulf of Mexico production after an ...
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September

16

Decarbon Daily - Decarbonization Themes Part 3

Emerging Climate Technology Framework

 www.cdp.net
CDP’s model of disclosure, insight, and action drives the acceleration of solutions, and we have seen through our involvement with the SB...

API Climate Action Framework

 www.api.org
The challenge of meeting the world’s growing need for energy while simultaneously ushering in a lower-carbon future is massive, intertwin...

EPA GHG Reduction Programs & Strategies

 www.epa.gov
A wide range of strategies are available to help organizations reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Below are a list of resources...

Our World in Data: CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

 ourworldindata.org
How are emissions changing in each country? Is your country making progress on reducing emissions? We built 207 country profiles which al...
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September

15

Decarbon Daily - EVs, Mining, and Supply Chains

EV Battery Prices Risk Reversing Downward Trend as Metals Surge

 www.bloomberg.com
Electric vehicles are generally more expensive than gas vehicles today, mainly because the batteries they use are expensive. This is why ...

The Major Problems Blocking America’s Electric Car Future

 www.linkedin.com
Just a decade and a half ago, the then-CEO of General Motors Co. Rick Wagoner observed to Larry Burns, at the time GM’s head of research ...

The Energy Transition in Mining

 newlab.com
Mining companies around the globe have strengthened their corporate sustainability goals in recent months amid concerns to act on climate...

Miners Race for Nickel as Electric Car Revolution Looms

 www.ft.com
In remote northern Ontario, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest railway or paved road, the world’s largest mining group and an Austra...

Fuel for Thought: Energy Transition, Like Oil, Needs Strategic Reserves

 www.spglobal.com
A military coup in West Africa has underscored the potential benefits of stockpiling critical and strategic metals essential for the ener...

Electric Mine Consortium

 www.electricmine.com
Electrification is key to the clean energy transformation of mine sites. The road to zero emissions requires the use of vehicles and mach...
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September

14

Decarbon Daily - Gulf Coast Hurricane + Low-carbon Investments

U.S. Gulf Coast Energy Firms Face Another Hurricane Hit

 www.reuters.com
Evacuations were underway on Monday from offshore U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil platforms as onshore oil refiners began preparing for rain and ...

Road to COP: Hydrogen Comes Faster Than You Think

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At this fall’s United Nations climate summit, world leaders will seek to take concrete steps to fight global warming. Green hydrogen coul...

Chevron to Triple Low-carbon Investment

 www.wsj.com
Chevron Corp. is tripling spending in its new low-carbon unit, which Chief Executive Mike Wirth said he increasingly sees as a viable bus...

The Hollow Promise of Net-zero Carbon Pledges

 www.cnbc.com
Countries and corporations around the globe are talking up their climate credentials, pledging to achieve “net-zero” carbon emissions or ...

This Solar-powered Pavement Harvests Energy from Under Your Feet

 www.euronews.com
A company in Hungary is making solar panels out of plastic waste - then using them as pavements. The Platio team says it can power buildi...

The Landfill Group and LS Power Announce Renewable Natural Gas Project in Greenville County

 greenvillejournal.com
The Landfill Group and LS Power announced Sept. 9 that Enerdyne Power Systems, a landfill group company based in Charlotte, has started c...
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September

13

Decarbon Daily - M&A Trends, Caterpillar, & Energy SPAC

Caterpillar (CAT) Acquires CarbonPoint Solutions

 www.streetinsider.com
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) has acquired Enhanced Energy Group, Inc. operating as "CarbonPoint Solutions," a U.S.-based carbon capture t...

Novus Capital Acquires California Energy Storage Startup for $1+ Billion

 www.insideindianabusiness.com
Indianapolis-based Novus Capital Corp. II (NYSE: NXU) has announced plans to acquire California-based startup Energy Vault Inc. in a deal...

Briggs & Stratton acquires energy storage manufacturer SimpliPhi Power

 www.solarpowerworldonline.com
Small engine and generator producer Briggs & Stratton has acquired SimpliPhi Power, a lithium-iron phosphate energy storage manufacturer....

LG Energy Solution Acquires Former Market Leader NEC Energy Solutions

 www.energy-storage.news
LG Energy Solution has acquired NEC Energy Solutions (NEC ES), the NEC Corporation subsidiary focused on energy storage which announced i...

Talos Energy (TALO) Acquires CCS Project in Offshore Texas

 www.nasdaq.com
Talos Energy Inc. TALO and partner Carbonvert Inc. have been awarded the lease on a carbon capture and storage (“CCS”) project on the Gul...

Energy SPAC Black Mountain Acquisition files for a $200 million IPO

 www.renaissancecapital.com
Black Mountain Acquisition, a blank check company formed by the founder of the Black Mountain Entities, filed on Friday with the SEC to r...
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September

10

Decarbon Daily - $95M Awards, Solugen, and Walmart's $2B Green Bond

Assessing the Relative Climate Impact of Carbon Utilization for Concrete, Chemical, and Mineral Production

 pubs.acs.org
Estimates show that 6.2 gigatons of carbon dioxide (CO2) can be captured and utilized across three pathways, concrete, chemical, and mine...

Increasing the Efficiency of Chemical Reactions To Help Decarbonize Fuels and Chemicals

 scitechdaily.com
Electrochemical reactions that are accelerated using catalysts lie at the heart of many processes for making and using fuels, chemicals, ...

Founders Factory and G-Force Launch Seed Program for Climate Focused Startups

 techcrunch.com
U.K. tech accelerator Founders Factory is joining forces with a European counterpart to launch the Founders Factory Sustainability Seed p...

Solugen Raises Over $350 Million in Series C Funding Led by Baillie Gifford & GIC to Make Carbon Negative Chemicals

 www.prnewswire.com
Today, Solugen, the company decarbonizing the chemicals industry, announced a Series C financing round of over $350 million. GIC and Bail...

Walmart Secures $2 Billion Green Bond

 www.environmentalleader.com
Walmart has priced the company’s first green bond, a $2 billion offering intended to advance its goal of achieving total renewable energy...

Chevron, Caterpillar Announce Collaboration Agreement on Hydrogen

 www.chevron.com
Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), and Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) today announced a collaboration ag...
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September

09

Decarbon Daily - Decarbonization Themes Part 2

EIA's Short Term Energy Outlook, Published Sept 8th

 www.eia.gov
The September Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) remains subject to heightened levels of uncertainty related to the ongoing recovery from t...

ExxonMobil Launches Certification Pilot with MiQ for Permian Natural Gas

 www.naturalgasintel.com
ExxonMobil is wading into the certified natural gas game, partnering with nonprofit MiQ for natural gas produced at its Poker Lake, NM, f...

Seneca Resources Signs on with Project Canary over Certified Natural Gas

 www.bizjournals.com
Seneca, a division of National Fuel Gas Co. (NYSE: NFG), said it would certify as responsibly sourced gas, or RSG, about 300 million cubi...

Chesapeake Acquiring Vine Energy in Bid to Capture RSG-LNG Export Synergy

 www.spglobal.com
Chesapeake Energy struck a $2.2 billion deal to acquire Haynesville shale producer Vine Energy, consolidating its position in the Louisia...
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September

08

Decarbon Daily - Rice Events, $6B Investment, and Renewable Boost

Toyota to Spend $9 Billion on Electric Car Battery Plants

 www.wsj.com
Toyota Motor Corp. said it would spend $9 billion over the next decade to build factories for electric-car batteries as it gears up to se...

Phillips 66 Invests in Battery Tech, Analytics Software

 www.bizjournals.com
Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX), Houston's largest publicly traded company, recently made new investments into firms in lithium-ion battery techn...

BLM Plans Legislation to Boost Renewable Energy on Public Lands

 energycapitalmedia.com
Today, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced it started a process related to public lands’ permitting. Accordingly, the B...

Houston-based Hyco1 Launches Industrial Decarbonization Tech

 www.bizjournals.com
A Houston company is developing technology to convert carbon dioxide emissions into sustainable products, from food-grade waxes to fertil...

Eaton’s Vehicle Group Partners With Ballard Fuel Cell Systems and National Renewable Energy Laboratory to Develop Heavy-Duty Truck Fuel Cell Technology

www.businesswire.com
Power management company Eaton today announced its Vehicle Group has partnered with leading fuel system manufacturer Ballard Fuel Cell Sy...

Schlumberger New Energy Enters into Agreement with EnerVenue for Metal-Hydrogen Stationary Energy Storage Solutions

 www.businesswire.com
Schlumberger New Energy announced today an investment and collaboration agreement to deploy EnerVenue’s uniquely differentiated nickel-hy...
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September

07

Decarbon Daily - US Electricity Mix, EV Demand, and Net-zero

Priority Power Announces Investment by Oaktree Capital

 www.businesswire.com
Priority Power Management, LLC (“Priority Power”), an independent energy services provider offering smart energy solutions and streamline...

Net-zero Living: How Your Day Will Look in a Carbon-Neutral World

 www.newscientist.com
We fast-forward to 2050 and imagine what an average day will be like when we have slashed our carbon emissions – a picture informed by th...

An Introduction to Net-Zero Carbon Real Estate

 www.pinsentmasons.com
A series of reports from non-governmental organisations have warned about the catastrophic effects for society if efforts to combat clima...

Net-Zero Will Leave the Middle East 75% Poorer

 www.energylivenews.com
A new report argues that oil-producing countries must be helped in the clean energy transition or risk becoming heavily poverty-stricken ...

On-site Power Plants are Essential for Decarbonization of Industry

 balkangreenenergynews.com
Within the efforts to decarbonize the economy and reach global carbon neutrality, industrial production is the most difficult segment, Lu...
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September

02

Decarbon Daily - Decarbonization Themes Part 1

Sodium-Ion Batteries May Power Profits Of Manganese Miners

 seekingalpha.com
Over recent decades, batteries for many of the electric devices we take for granted have driven demand for Lithium. And these days, with ...

BHP partners with Caterpillar to develop zero-emission mining trucks

 thedriven.io
Mining juggernaut BHP says it will partner with American machinery and equipment company Caterpillar to develop and deploy zero-emission ...

Major miners are missing energy-transition boat, industry veteran warns

 www.marketwatch.com
As much of the world aims to move toward a greener economy, some companies are trying to position themselves to deliver the resources nee...

Value of battery metals in new electric cars already beyond 2020 total

 www.mining.com
MINING.COM’s EV Metal Index set a new monthly record in June despite seasonal factors, jumping 36% in value from the previous month to ed...

Electric vehicle revolution to underpin metals demand

 www.miningreview.com
As several countries have committed to bring in cleaner fueled cars in a bid to reduce dependency on fossil fuels, the demand for electri...

Global EV Sales Rose 160% In First Half, Overcoming Component Shortages And Covid

 www.forbes.com
Global sales of electric vehicles increased by 160% in the first half of 2021 from a year earlier to 2.6 million units, according to rese...
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September

01

Decarbon Daily - Oil Views, $2B Valuation, Carbon Tax

Lotus Cars Finishes Funding Round at $2 Billion Valuation

 www.bloomberg.com
Units of Lotus and electric-vehicle upstart Nio Inc. signed an investment pact as the Chinese owner of the iconic maker of British sports...

Gatik Raises $85 Million in Series B Funding Led by Koch Disruptive Technologies

 www.globenewswire.com
Gatik today announced a new investment of $85 million in Series B funding to significantly expand North America’s first autonomous Middle...

Granite Publishes Annual Sustainability Report Unveiling New ESG Priorities

 www.graniteconstruction.com
Today, Granite (NYSE:GVA) published its 2020 Sustainability Report, which highlights the company’s advancement on environmental, social, ...

Twelve Partners with LanzaTech to Transform CO2 into Polypropylene

 www.twelve.co
Carbon transformation company Twelve and biotechnology company LanzaTech have partnered to transform CO2 emissions into polypropylene, a ...

ADM Announces Industry’s First Net Carbon Neutral Milling Operations

 www.adm.com
ADM (NYSE: ADM) announced today that the company has achieved net carbon neutral status for its U.S. flour milling operations. This accom...

OPIS Expands Carbon Market Report

 www.opisnet.com
Ever-evolving carbon policies such as Cap and Trade, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Renewable Portfolio Standards, Renewable Fuel Standard and...
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August

31

Decarbon Daily - ESG, Carbon Offsets, & Opportunities

The Blind Spot: How ESG Matters Can Affect Current Accounting and Financial Reporting

 www.financialexecutives.org
There have been some questions about whether a company needs to incorporate ESG considerations when preparing its current financial state...

Kevala Raises $21M to Improve Tools for Managing Energy Grid Infrastructure

 techcrunch.com
Kevala, the startup that collects and analyzes energy grid infrastructure data for utility companies, renewable energy providers, EV char...

Carbon Offsets: A License to Pollute or a Path to Net-zero Emissions?

 www.ft.com
Can planting trees in Guizhou province cancel out emissions from natural gas burned for energy in offices and homes across China? That’s ...

International Oil And Gas Industry – Role In Achieving Net-Zero Emissions

 www.forbes.com
A Society of Petroleum Engineers live webinar discusses the energy transition. The transition needs to be done responsibly: no-one should...

SoCalGas to Use Gas-Mapping Lidar to Reduce Methane Emissions

 www.photonics.com
Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) signed an agreement for $12 million with high-tech laser company Bridger Photonics. The company wi...

Ideanomics in Transformative Deal, to Acquire VIA Motors Valued at Up to $630MM

 investors.ideanomics.com
Ideanomics (NASDAQ: IDEX) ("Ideanomics" or the "Company"), a global company focused on driving the adoption of commercial electric vehicl...
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August

30

Decarbon Daily - Money Monday, IPOs, Funding

Rivian Confidentially Files For IPO, Seeks $80 Billion Valuation

 insideevs.com
The automaker is reportedly targeting an $80 billion valuation, which would make it the world's sixth-most valuable car company.

Solaris Oilfield Prices IPO at $12, Below the Range

 www.nasdaq.com
Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure, which provides mobile frac sand storage silos used in oil and gas production, raised $121 million by off...

LevelTen Energy Lands $35M

 pitchbook.com
LevelTen Energy has raised a $35 million Series C led by NGP Energy Technology Partners. The Seattle-based company is the developer of a ...

NV5 Acquires Sage Renewable Energy Consulting

 www.globenewswire.com
NV5 Global, Inc. (the “Company” or “NV5”) (Nasdaq: NVEE), a provider of compliance, technology, engineering, and environmental consulting...

Terabase Energy Acquires PlantPredict Solar Energy Modeling Tool

 solarindustrymag.com
Solar digital solutions startup Terabase Energy has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PlantPredict, a predictive solar energy mode...

NextEra Energy Partners Completes Acquisitions of Four Wind Assets

dailyenergyinsider.com
NextEra Energy Partners, LP completed its acquisition of a 391-megawatt (MW) portfolio of four operating wind assets located in Californi...
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August

27

Decarbon Daily - Inconvenient Truth 2, CO2 Pipes, and SPAC Merger

Who Owns the Most CO2 Pipelines in the US?

 www.linkedin.com
Who owns the most CO2 pipelines in the US? Looking for both volume and miles for public and private companies. $DEN $OXY $CVX $KMI and an...

LevelTen Energy Raises $35mm in Series C Funding

 www.privateequitywire.co.uk
LevelTen Energy, a provider of renewable transaction infrastructure, has raised USD35 million in a Series C funding round led by NGP ETP,...

Invest Green Democratizes Cleantech Venture Capital

 www.businesswire.com
Invest Green, Inc. (IGI) has launched with a mission of providing all investors access to institutional quality Cleantech opportunities m...

EO Charging Goes Public Via Merger with First Reserve Sustainable Growth Corp

 www.spacalpha.com
Juuce Limited, which trades as EO Charging, a leading provider of technology-enabled turnkey solutions for electric vehicle ("EV") fleets...
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August

26

Decarbon Daily - RNG, New Permits, BP to Sell RNG

Gevo Files for Environmental Permits in South Dakota for the Net-Zero 1 Project

 investors.gevo.com
Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) is pleased to announce that the air quality and wastewater permit applications for the company’s Net-Zero 1 pro...

The Case for RNG

 www.natlawreview.com
Growing interest in Renewable Natural Gas plays has our team taking a closer look at the profitability and sustainability merits of makin...

BP to Sell Renewable Natural Gas Derived From Poultry Litter

 www.csnews.com
BP is partnering with CleanBay Renewables on a 15-year agreement through which BP will purchase renewable natural gas (RNG) processed fro...

Montauk Renewables Awarded Patent for Near-Zero-Emissions Renewable Energy Technology

 www.globenewswire.com
Montauk Renewables, Inc. (“Montauk” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ: MNTK), a renewable energy company specializing in the management, recovery...
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August

25

Decarbon Daily - Cash Cools, Energy Vault $100mm, Carbon Removal

Blackrock's Former Sustainable Investing Chief Now Thinks ESG is a 'Dangerous Placebo'

 www.cnbc.com
A former BlackRock executive has outlined why he now thinks that sustainable investing is a “dangerous placebo that harms the public inte...

Swiss Re in Carbon Removal Agreement with Climeworks

www.reinsurancene.ws
Reinsurer Swiss Re has signed a ten-year purchase agreement with Climeworks, a specialist in carbon dioxide air capture technology, to ta...

EVgo Named by GM as a Preferred Provider for EV Fleets

 www.evgo.com
EVgo Inc., (NASDAQ: EVGO), the nation’s largest public fast charging network for electric vehicles (EVs) and first powered by 100% renewa...

Cash Cools Everything Around Me. - Lowercarbon Capital

 lowercarboncapital.com
Well, Lowercarbon now has another $800 million, in fiat, to keep unfucking the planet. It turns out that raising for a climate fund in th...

Energy Vault Announces $100 Million Series C Funding

 www.businesswire.com
Energy Vault the creator of gravity-based, grid-scale energy storage solutions with its proprietary technology, today announced $100 mill...

Energy Storage Appears to be Fully Charged for Exponential Growth

 www.pv-magazine.com
Lithium-based energy storage volumes are expected to grow by multiple orders of magnitude in the coming years, with a 1,000% capacity inc...
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August

24

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 24, 2021

Carbon Capture Attracting Investment - Denbury Leading The Charge

 seekingalpha.com
With more industrial carbon capture projects to be announced this year, Denbury is poised to lead the way.

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $24 Million to Capture Carbon Emissions Directly From Air

 www.energy.gov
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $24 million in funding for nine research projects to explore and develop new methods ...

Anheuser-Busch’s $64M Investment Will Build Largest US Brewery Solar Installation

 www.environmentalleader.com
Anheuser-Busch is investing $64 million at its Los Angeles brewery to install new solar panels as well as emissions-reduction technology....

Union Pacific and Progress Rail Partner to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

 www.up.com
Union Pacific locomotives will be getting a boost of biodiesel fuel. Progress Rail, a Caterpillar company, approved the use of up to 20% ...
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August

23

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 23, 2021

Kinder Morgan Closes Kinetrex Energy Acquisition

 www.businesswire.com
Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) today closed on its previously announced acquisition of Kinetrex Energy. The $310 million acquisition inc...

GM Expands Battery Recall to ALL 2017-2022 Chevy Bolt EVs, Blames Supplier LG

 electrek.co
GM Friday afternoon announced it would expand its Bolt recall to ALL Chevy Bolts including ones manufactured in the US and including the ...

Nickel Is Becoming a Battleground for Bets on Battery Future

 www.bloomberg.com
The race to supply automakers with nickel to power their batteries is pitting two of the biggest names in mining against each other.

Regology Snares $8M Series A to Help Navigate Maze of Global Regulations

 techcrunch.com
Every country has its own bundle of laws, rules and regulations, and they change on a regular basis, making it an enormous challenge to k...
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August

20

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 20, 2021

Estimated $1 trillion oil and gas windfall could speed decarbonisation

 www.upstreamonline.com
Oil and gas companies should be making hay while the sun shines and use their current record cash flow windfalls to speed up their decarb...

Is there an investment opportunity for 'bad' ESG assets?

www.internationalinvestment.net
The past 18 months have seen an acceleration of the Environment Social and Governance (ESG) agenda, and this is a positive development. H...

Climate tech: How ESG investing is evolving into ‘a profitable endeavor’

 finance.yahoo.com
As economies across the globe square up to the challenge of slowing human-caused global warming, venture capital firms hope to tackle cli...

Investing in low-emissions energy is the key to the climate crisis

 thehill.com
Last week’s release of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report highlights once again the imperativ...

Ample raises $160M to scale its battery swapping service

 techcrunch.com
San Francisco-based Ample has raised a $160 million Series C to scale its battery swapping service, the largest round yet for the 8-year-...

BMW secures funding for EV battery aiming to rival range of a traditional engine

 www.cnbc.com
A BMW project centered around the development of a long-distance electric vehicle battery has been awarded £26.2 million ($36.07 million)...
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August

19

Decarbon Daily - Issue for August 19, 2021

National Oilwell Varco, inc (NOV) Q2 2021 Earnings Call Transcript

 www.fool.com
During the second quarter of 2021, NOV's consolidated revenue increased 8% sequentially, and EBITDA improved to $47 million, excluding th...

Congress Pushes New Offshore Wind Supply Chain Tax Breaks

 www.enr.com
To support offshore wind projects gearing up in their states and elsewhere along the U.S. East Coast, Senate Democrats Edward Markey and ...

Petronas delivers first carbon neutral LNG cargo to Japan's Shikoku Electric

 www.spglobal.com
Malaysia's national oil company Petronas has completed the delivery of its maiden carbon neutral liquefied natural gas cargo on Aug. 17, ...

Danish carbon capture project presses ahead

 splash247.com
Ineos, Wintershall and their consortium partners have decided to move ahead with the Greensand carbon capture and storage pilot project i...
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