Veterans of the Biden-era Department of Energy have developed a list of policies for advancing technologies to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks and the atmosphere.
The team highlighted more than 30 proposals that would promote carbon dioxide removal and carbon capture and storage, while also shifting the economy away from its reliance on planet-warming oil, gas and coal. The wish list was included in a report published Tuesday by the University of Pennsylvania’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.
Strengthening EPA’s power plant air pollution regulations is among the suggested policies that are unlikely to advance during the administration of President Donald Trump, who has erroneously claimed that climate change is a “hoax” and dismantled U.S. efforts to address the problem.
But other ideas — such as supporting additional CO2 pipelines and storage wells — could win bipartisan support in Washington and state capitals because they “align well with themes of economic development, energy independence, and infrastructure modernization,” Jennifer Wilcox, an energy policy professor at the Kleinman Center and the report’s lead author, said in an email to POLITICO’s E&E News.
