Welcome back to some more good news!

A bit of a shorter issue this week, focused on all science, policy, and business.

Science

This Forest Made More Than You This Year

• The Miombo woodlands have recently been found to be storing as much as twice as much as previously estimated

  • Roughly 3.7 BILLION metric tons of carbon

• The new calculation was done using LIDAR technology to better map greenergy on the ground and beyond just the trees

• Benefit of a more accurate estimate:

  • The value of the forest essentially doubles since the carbon stored has doubled - this makes it more costly to remove

• It's now becoming less and less attractive to cut this forest down from an economical impact (never mind the environmental view!)

Business

Energy Efficient Carbon Capture

• Spiritus is a new startup focused on DAC (Direct Air Capture). Its upcoming facility will have the capability of removing 1,000 tons of CO2. per year

• Will be located in New Mexico and eventually scaled up in Wyoming

• Spiritus uses a new, novel, passive approach as compared to the typical energy-intensive DAC processes.

• Currently, Spiritus plans to sell the captured CO2 to projects that will make more fuel.

  Read more at Bloomberg

Politics

EPA Administrative Leave Reversed!

• Under a month after putting employees at regional EPA offices, many received notices to come back to work

  • Mainly due to regulatory and statutory requirements

  • Many were brought back due to extensive local knowledge and connections, making the national government more effective

    • …Who knew?

Thank you so much for reading!

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~ Dhanvi