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Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage


Carbon Capture and Storage

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.
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Consumers Energy Pledge

2020
Declaration
Consumers Energy announced a goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, in part using strategies such as carbon capture and sequestration and large-scale tree planting.

BP Pledge

2020
Declaration
BP has pledged to reach net-zero emissions across all operations by 2050 and plans to use CCUS and natural climate sinks in the effort to achieve this goal.

SOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient, and Just America

2020
Policy Proposal
Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Majority Staff
This report lays out a framework for comprehensive congressional action on climate change and identifies the need to develop and deploy a suite of natural and technological carbon removal solutions to reduce carbon pollution as quickly as possible.

The European Green Deal: New opportunities to scale up carbon capture and storage

2020
Think Tank Report
Eve Tamme
This Global CCS Institute report takes a closer look at the European Green Deal and highlights three main challenges for CCS in the existing legislation.

Congressional Testimony of Dr. S. Julio Friedmann, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University

2020
Hearings and Testimony
Julio Friedmann
Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing to examine the challenges and opportunities for large-scale carbon management.

Congressional Testimony of Steven E. Winberg, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy U.S. Department of Energy

2020
Hearings and Testimony
Steven E. Winberg
Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing to examine the challenges and opportunities for large-scale carbon management.

Congressional Testimony of Ernest J. Moniz

2020
Hearings and Testimony
Ernest J. Moniz
Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing to examine the challenges and opportunities for large-scale carbon management.

Congressional Testimony of Shannon Angielski, Carbon Utilization Research Council

2020
Hearings and Testimony
Shannon Angielski
Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing to examine the challenges and opportunities for large-scale carbon management.

H. 8062 – The Geoengineering Act

2020
Proposed Legislation
State of Rhode Island
This bill establishes a licensing procedure at the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) for persons seeking to engage in geoengineering activity, with the intent to protect the health, safety, and environment of the state.

Capturing Investment: Policy Design to Finance CCUS Projects in the US Power Sector

2020
Scholarly Work
Julio Friedmann, Emeka R. Ochu, Jeffrey D. Brown
This study attempts to answer the question: What are the specific US policy design parameters that could provide investors and lenders with net cash flows that are both high enough and certain enough to attract private capital to CCUS projects?

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