Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the technological process of capturing carbon dioxide from a power plant or industrial activity and the storage of that captured carbon dioxide in an underground basalt formation, saline aquifer, depleted oil and gas reservoir, or sub-sea geologic formation.
Regulation classifying injection of CO2 streams for geological sequestration as Class VI injection wells subject to Vermont underground injection control regulations.
This Congressional Research Service report discusses certain federal financial incentive mechanisms for “clean coal” commercial projects; namely, loan guarantees and tax incentives.
Under this proposed legislation, non-corporate taxpayers would be allowed to exclude Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) grants and awards from gross income.
This article reviews the domestic and international laws that might control climate engineering research and testing in the United States and presents considerations for a regulatory scheme that would foster further research and testing.
This essay examines the existing international governance structures to address geoengineering and concludes that they are inadequate to the task and makes recommendations for structural adaptations in international governance to address the problem.
This paper identifies the lack of a comprehensive regulatory regime governing CCS technology and how fragmented regulation is a significant barrier to CCS deployment.
This paper highlights the benefits Alberta has obtained from the passage of carbon capture and storage (CCS) legislation and summarizes some of the work taking place via the Regulatory Framework Assessment (RFA).
This report examines the CCS legislation passed in Wyoming, Kansas, Montana and the States of Victoria and Queensland in Australia to generate an understanding of the positive and negative elements of written CCS legislation in Alberta.