Items Tagged with 'net zero carbon'

As the Trump administration scales back green transition progress on the federal level, states and cities are using all tools at their disposal, and finding new ones, to keep reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Boston passed the most stringent carbon emissions rule for buildings in the nation.

The 742-MW Net Zero Teesside Power project in northeast England could become one of the world’s first commercial-scale gas-fired power plants with carbon capture and storage.

Fluor said it will gain $3B in design and construction work on the ethylene and derivatives complex planned in Alberta, with major building to start next year.

ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 228 applies to existing and new buildings, as well as groups of buildings or portions of buildings. 

Public-private project to be located next to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory will include net-zero buildings, with NextCore Group contracted as developer.

Developers and union officials argue the rules could discourage development in the city. 

Estimated $750-million to $950-million project set to be built on an Occidental Petroleum site in Texas would remove 860,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year by capturing it and storing it underground.

The nation’s first mass-timber, net-zero energy, low-carbon public building also provides the San Mateo County civic structure with gravitas.