A series of public hearings will begin in March on a proposed pipeline project to bring underground storage of carbon dioxide to North Dakota, and at the same time, new research is emerging about the technology. March 14 is the first scheduled public hearing hosted by the state s Public Service Commission. It wants to gather input on a plan by Summit Carbon Solutions to capture carbon dioxide from ethanol plants and run it underground through several Midwestern states before storing it in North Dakota. .
Environmental groups want West Coast governors to speak out against the expansion of a gas pipeline in the region. The Canadian company TC Energy is proposing to increase capacity for its GTN XPress pipeline, which stretches more than 1,300 miles from Canada through Washington state, Oregon and California. Audrey Leonard, staff attorney for Columbia Riverkeeper, said more than 50 organizations have sent a letter to the governors of those states. .
Iowa utilities regulators have published previously undisclosed information on Des Moines-based energy giant MidAmerican Energy s proposal to construct a massive alternative-energy system called Wind PRIME. The studies cited cost-effective ways to build the project without relying on fossil fuels as a secondary energy source. The $4 billion project would dot even more of Iowa s landscape with wind turbines. .
As the one-year anniversary of the Ukraine war approaches, climate activists are making plans to rebuild Ukraine with clean energy once the war is over. Groups of elected officials in both countries are holding informal talks about what they describe as a "Clean Energy Marshall Plan" for Ukraine. Igor Tregub, a Ukrainian-American and Leadership Council member of the nonprofit Elected Officials to Protect America and former Berkeley Land Board Commissioner, said Russia makes $258 million a day in oil-and-gas profits to fuel its war machine. .