Summary/Abstract
This paper assesses the legal framework for developing CO2 pipelines to support DAC Hub projects. The analysis in this paper focuses on privately owned and developed CO2 pipelines, rather than assessing the feasibility of government agencies (state or federal) constructing and operating pipelines of their own. Through this lens, this paper offers a detailed review of permitting and regulatory regimes in ten states distributed across the continental United States that were identified as potential candidates for DAC Hubs: Alabama, Arizona, California, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wyoming. Building from this regulatory review, this paper identifies four key barriers to the wide-scale rapid development of CO2 pipelines necessary to support a comprehensive system of national DAC Hubs, and suggests four key recommendations for improving the state and federal frameworks surrounding CO2 pipelines.