The federal government could get carbon capture projects up and running faster if it issued new rules, tweaked its permitting requirements, and supported the industry with its buying power, the White House Council on Environmental Quality said Wednesday in a report to Congress.
The report offers a menu of policy options for lawmakers to mull as they consider ways of promoting carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) technologies, which remove carbon from the air. Carbon capture is among the rare low-carbon technologies in President Joe Biden’s clean-energy plan that has bipartisan backing.
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