Trump’s Energy Shakeup Will Spare Carbon Capture
The US president-elect’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency has embraced CCS technology.
US President-Elect Donald Trump is promising plenty of 180-degree pivots when it comes to energy. Yet one priority of the current administration is likely to stick.
Carbon capture and storage has bipartisan support, with advocates touting it as an important tool for paring pollution. Under outgoing President Joe Biden, the Environmental Protection Agency has put CCS at the center of efforts to curtail power-plant emissions.
But greenlighting the infrastructure necessary to transport all that trapped carbon dioxide away from power stations and refineries — and then lock it underground — has proved anything but easy.
The EPA has a backlog of about 150 applications for wells to store captured CO2,
