State and national leaders must collaborate to implement the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and achieve a net-zero carbon future, a U.S. Department of Energy said in a March 7 news release.
The National Association of State Energy Officials Energy Policy Outlook Conference welcomed a panel of Department of Energy leaders to discuss bill’s implementation.
“We need to make sure that we have a solution that scales with emissions, and that’s on the order of gigatons. […] When we look at the projects we have in the United States today for dedicated storage, we have five programs where we can inject CO2 deep underground [through the CarbonSAFE program],” Dr. Jennifer Wilcox, acting assistant secretary of the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, said. “There is really going to be a bottleneck in terms of our carbon capture and storage demonstration projects if we don’t have a place to put the CO2.”
FECM will provide states with technical assistance to develop carbon storage projects so they protect human health and the environment, the Department of Energy said. The Environmental Protection Agency will get $50 million to support states’ efforts.
FECM's work includes examining U.S. dependence on fossil fuels across the supply chain, analyzing how those fuels are extracted and exploring opportunities to mitigate emissions associated with their use.
