Enhanced Oil Recovery Archives

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Carbon Capture and Sequestration Regulation in Texas and Beyond

2024

Scholarly Work

This Comment provides an overview of CCS regulation within states that already have or are currently seeking primacy over CCS from the Environmental Protection Agency.

H.B. 492: Louisiana Bill on Eminent Domain Rights for CCS

2024

Enacted Legislation

Clarifies the rights of owners of land as it relates to eminent domain

H.R. 5205 – NET Zero Act of 2021

2021

Proposed Legislation

U.S. Congress

This bill would amend the 45Q tax credit by removing the deadline for DAC to geologic storage and enforcing a 10-year deadline for DAC to EOR.

S. 2118 – Clean Energy for America Act

2021

Proposed Legislation

117th U.S. Congress

This bill would modify the Section 45Q carbon dioxide sequestration tax credit by authorizing the direct payment of credits and removing minimum carbon thresholds to incentivize smaller projects.

Carbon Capture and Storage: Actions Needed to Improve DOE Management of Demonstration Projects

2021

Scholarly Work

United States Government Accountability Office

This report examines the outcomes of past Department of Energy (DOE)-funded CCS demonstration projects and the external factors that affected them and how DOE’s management of these projects contributed to their outcomes.

Future of Carbon Capture Looks Bright After Treasury Proposes Long-Awaited Regulations

2020

News/Commentary

Latham & Watkins

Law firm commentary on the proposed Treasury Department and IRS regulations addressing issues applicable to the tax credit for CCS under Section 45Q.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Treasury Department proposed regulations (REG-112339-19)

2020

Regulation

This document contains proposed regulations regarding the credit for carbon oxide sequestration under section 45Q of the Internal Revenue Code.

Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks

2020

Scientific Report

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

The report presents data on carbon sequestration from the Land Use, Land-Use change, and Forestry (LULUCF) sector and from enhanced oil recovery in the United States.

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