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Tex. Tax Code Ann. § 202.0545

2009
Enacted Legislation
State of Texas
Provides a reduced tax rate for EOR projects that use and geologically sequester anthropogenic carbon dioxide.

Tex. Tax Code Ann. § 151.334

2009
Enacted Legislation
State of Texas
Exempts CCS equipment used in a clean energy project from sales and use taxes, if the captured CO2 is either used in a local EOR project or sequestered in Texas for at least 1,000 years

Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann. § 382.501 et seq

2009
Enacted Legislation
State of Texas
Subchapter K tilted "Offshore Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide" authorizes various state agencies to construct an offshore, deep subsurface geologic repository for carbon dioxide on state-owned land.

W. Va. Code Ann. § 22-11A-1 et seq.

2009
Enacted Legislation
State of West Virginia
Establishes legal and regulatory framework for permitting of CO2 sequestration sites and empowers the Department of Environmental Protection to permit and monitor carbon sequestration sites.

Ga. Code §§48-5-7.7 et seq. – Georgia Forest Land Protection Act

2008
Enacted Legislation
This law provides for an ad valorem tax exemption for property primarily used for the good faith subsistence or commercial production of trees, timber, or other wood and wood fiber products.

Fla. Stat. § 366.8255

2008
Enacted Legislation
State of Florida
Allows inclusion of “costs or expenses prudently incurred for scientific research and geological assessments of carbon capture and storage” in utilities’ environmental compliance costs which may be recovered from ratepayers.

Fla. Stat. § 366.91

2008
Enacted Legislation
State of Florida
Requires utilities to offer to purchase renewable energy and includes “electrical energy produced using pipeline-quality synthetic gas produced from waste petroleum coke with carbon capture and sequestration” in definition of “renewable energy."

La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 30:209

2008
Enacted Legislation
State of Louisiana
Authorizes the State Mineral and Energy Board, among other powers, to “enter into operating agreements whereby the state receives a share of revenues from the storage of oil, natural gas, liquid or liquefied hydrocarbons, or carbon dioxide.”

Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 38. § 585-K

2008
Enacted Legislation
State of Maine
Subsection 4 provides that carbon dioxide that has been “captured and used for a commercial purpose” or “permanently disposed of in geological formations” shall not be counted as emissions for the purpose of the code.

Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 23J § 1

2008
Enacted Legislation
State of Massachusetts
Carbon capture and sequestration is included in the definition of “clean energy research” that may be supported by Massachusetts Alternative and Clean Energy Investment Trust Fund.

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