FMR. DOE COAL CHIEF: EOR NOT A ‘NICHE’ OPPORTUNITY FOR CO2
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Budget & Policy
WYOMING GOV. SIGNS BILL FOR CARBON CAPTURE TEST CENTER
Martin Schneider GHG Monitor 3/14/2014 Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead (R) signed into law last week a bill providing $15 million for a new carbon capture and storage test center that would explore novel uses for captured CO2 and develop new markets for carbon. The bill provides the $15 million contingent upon the state receiving $5 […]
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Budget & Policy
HOUSE ENERGY PANEL TO INVESTIGATE EPA NSPS DECISIONMAKING
Martin Schneider GHG Monitor 3/14/2014 The House Energy and Commerce Committee this week launched in an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency’s decisionmaking on the proposed New Source Performance Standards for power plants, which essentially require carbon capture and sequestration for new coal plants. In a March 12 letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, Committee […]
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Budget & Policy
FY15 REQUEST RENAMES REGIONAL CCS PARTNERSHIPS, ENDS EOR STORAGE STUDY FUNDING
Martin Schneider GHG Monitor 3/14/2014 The Department of Energy’s FY 2015 budget request renames the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships, rebranding the program as Storage Infrastructure “to better represent the characterization and field activities that occur in the RCSPs and other small and large-scale field projects in a variety of geologic reservoirs in onshore and offshore […]
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Budget & Policy
AT HEARING, A SHARP DIVIDE ON IMPACT OF NSPS ON CCS, COAL
Martin Schneider GHG Monitor 3/14/2014 The current and future viability of carbon capture and sequestration technology again took center stage at a House hearing this week, with lawmakers on the Science, Space and Technology Committee taking aim at the Environmental Protection Agency’s New Source Performance Standards as well as regulation of carbon dioxide used in […]