Across The Wire

1. CONQUEST Continues To Roll-Out Its Sustainable Infrastructure Investment Strategy In Europe With The Acquisition Of A 12MW Greenfield On-Shore Wind Park
   10/12/2018

   CONQUEST Asset Management (“CONQUEST”) announced it completed, on behalf of the Sustainable Infrastructure fund it manages, the acquisition of a 12MW greenfield on-shore wind park in France

2. Waste Management Energy Services Opens Solids And Liquids Injection Disposal Facility In West Texas Servicing The Oil And Gas Industry
   10/11/2018

   Waste Management Energy Services of Texas, LLC, an in-direct subsidiary of Houston-based Waste Management, Inc., announced that its new Reeves County Solids and Liquids Injection Facility, designed for the safe disposal of oilfield wastes, is now fully operational

3. Peninsula Clean Energy Starts Construction Of 200-Megawatt Solar Facility
   10/11/2018

   California’s largest solar installation built exclusively for a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) agency broke ground recently in California’s Central Valley

4. CURC Applauds Introduction Of The Advancing Carbon Capture In Energy Generation Act Of 2018
   10/11/2018

   The Carbon Utilization Research Council (CURC) commends Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) on the introduction of the Advancing Carbon Capture in Energy GenerationAct of 2018 (S. 3566)

5. BNSF Awarded $22.6M State Grant For Clean Technology Pilot Program
   10/11/2018

   BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District were preliminarily awarded a $22.6M Zero and Near Zero Emission Freight Facilities grant from the California Air Resource Board to pilot several emissions reducing technologies in and around railyards

6. Nuvve Corporation Enters Into Strategic Partnership With EDF Group To Accelerate Electric Mobility Plan
   10/11/2018

   Nuvve Corporation, a San Diego-based green energy technology company, and EDF Group, a European-based integrated electricity company and a global leader in low carbon generation, recently announced a strategic partnership that will leverage Nuvve’s expertise in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies in support of EDF Group’s Electric Mobility Plan on “smart charging”

7. The Plastic Storm: Ocean Plastic Waste Brewing Tidal Wave Of Consumer Activism And Increased Industry Uncertainty, IHS Markit Says
   10/8/2018

   The growing global plastics sustainability movement is one of the biggest potential disruptors for the plastics industry and is putting future plastics resin demand and billions of dollars of industry investments at risk

8. Federal Agency Releases Finding Of No Significant Environmental Impact With Lake Erie Wind Turbine Project
   10/4/2018

   An exhaustive and thorough federal review of the proposed Icebreaker Lake Erie wind energy project that spanned more than two years found no significant environmental impacts

9. Technology Center Mongstad: Major American Company Will Test New Technology For Carbon Capture At Mongstad
   10/3/2018

   The engineering- and construction company Fluor has signed an agreement for use of the test facility Technology Center Mongstad (TCM) in Nordhordland. – This project will contribute to strengthen the energy technology cooperation between Norway and USA, TCMs business development manager, Bjørn-Erik Haugan says 

10. Air Pollution, Not Greenhouse Gases, Is The Main Cause Of Global Warming
    10/3/2018

    In a recent article in the Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International, Transdyne Corporation geoscientist J. Marvin Herndon makes the startling claim that climate scientists, including the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have been chasing the wrong culprit for global warming and climate change