The White House is gearing up to spend $12.1 billion under the federal infrastructure law to develop and deploy carbon capture technologies and build carbon dioxide transport pipelines. The Council on Environmental Quality seeks comments by March 18 on its proposal to deploy carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) projects, it said in a Feb. 16 Federal Register notice, which includes guidance to help US agencies regulate and permit them.
The U.S. will likely need to capture, transport and permanently sequester significant amounts of CO2 to meet the current US goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, the notice said, but its first priority to address climate change is to avoid emissions.