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The recent heatwaves in Europe this past few weeks are a blunt reminder of the world's race against the impacts of climate change.

Texas has become the sixth state to pass legislation to improve and enhance advanced plastics recycling and recovery technologies, which would convert post-consumer plastics into raw materials using in chemical recycling processes.The Texas Legislature passed the HB 1953 bill and it was signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott.

Southwest Research Institute and The University of Texas at San Antonio are collaborating to gather data for a computational model for supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) energy generation.

Scientists at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany are producing graphene using carbon dioxide as a raw material.Researchers at KIT are presenting a process in which the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide together with hydrogen gas is converted directly into graphene at temperatures of up to 10,000 degrees Celsius with the help of catalytically active metal surfaces.Graphene is the two-dimensional form of the chemical element carbon, with interesting electrical properties.Several groups at KIT have collaborated to present this method for separating graphene from carbon dioxide and hydrogen by means of a metal catalyst.

Ursula von der Leyen was elected by the European Parliament as the first female President of the European Commission on Tuesday.

Moltex Energy is delighted to announce that it has been awarded USD2.55M in funding by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy to develop Composite Structural Technologies (COST) for the Stable Salt Reactor (SSR).

The United States Senate recently passed the USEIT Act, which will help develop and deploy the next generation of carbon capture and utilization technologies in the country.The USE IT Act would support carbon utilization and direct air capture research.

Tata Chemicals Europe (“TCE”) revealed plans to build the UK’s first industrial-scale CCU Demonstration Plant, which will reduce its carbon emissions, while creating a sustainable supply of carbon dioxide.As first large-scale CCU project of its kind in the United Kingdom, the project also marks a world first in capturing and purifying carbon dioxide from power generation plant emission gases to use as a raw material to manufacture high purity sodium bicarbonate.

The release of methane emissions from drilling has been a ongoing problem for the oil and gas industry, but recent satellite data commissioned by the European Union leans closer to a solution.

Japan has released a long-term climate strategy for climate action. Prior to the United Kingdom's announcement that it would legislate to net zero by 2050, the world’s third largest economy approved a plan stating, 'a carbon-neutral society as the final goal, to be realized at the earliest possible time in the latter half of this century'.The strategy builds on Japan's 2016 pledge to reduce  emissions by 80% by 2050 from 2010 levels, and lays out strategies to innovate in areas such as hydrogen and carbon dioxide capture and utilization.