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Sectoral Emissions Controls: Refining and Chemicals

MCLI Recommendation: “Congress and the administration should focus on key processes that take place within energy-intensive industries, such as fractional distillation in refineries; steam cracking in petrochemical plants; pulp making, drying, and finishing in paper production; preservation, process heating, and machine-driven end uses in food processing; upstream production approaches in the iron and steel sector; conversion of bauxite to alumina and its electrolysis; clinker production in cement manufacture; and motor and steam systems across a number of sectors.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress and the administration should promote available and near-term BATs to shore up the process efficiency of major industrial sectors and lower direct carbon emissions.”

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Petition to Revise Clean Air Act 111 & 112 Standards on Petro-Plastic Production

364 different NGOs cosigned a 2017 EPA petition to update New Source Performance Standards and National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants that apply to facilities that convert fossil fu...
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Existing standards for petrochemical facilities

At present, petrochemical facilities are regulated under New Source Performance Standards that cover, among other things, fluid catalytic cracking units, fuel gas combustion devices, fluid coking unit...
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Report, Opportunities for Reducing CO2 in European Industry

The Alliance for Global Sustainability published a 2012 report, Opportunities for Reducing CO2 in European Industry. The report serves as an ex-post analysis of other research studies in a series, whi...
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Report, Exploring the Limits for CO2 Emission Abatement in the EU Power and Industry Sectors

Rootzen and Johnson’s 2014 report assessed the prospects for presently available abatement technologies to achieve significant reductions in CO2 emissions from large stationary sources of CO2 in the E...
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Report, The critical role of the industrial sector in reaching long-term emission reduction, energy efficiency and renewable targets

Birgit Fais et al.’s 2016 report evaluates the critical contribution of the industry sector to long-term decarbonization, efficiency and renewable energy policy targets. Its findings for the chemical ...
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Report, Reducing CO2 emissions from heavy industry

The Grantham Institute published a 2012 report, Reducing CO2 emissions from heavy industry: a review of technologies and considerations for policy makers. The report outlines the options for reducing ...
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Report, A review of the technologies, economics and policy instruments for decarbonising energy-intensive manufacturing industries

Napp et al.’s 2014 report seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of the technologies for reducing emissions from industrial processes by collating information from a wide range of sources.
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Report, Decarbonising Europeʼs energy intensive industries

Wyns and Axelson’s 2016 report focuses on innovative process technologies in emissions intensive industries that significantly improve the emission performance compared to current (state-of-the-art) t...