The West Virginia Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee approved a bill, Senate Bill 596, designed to help the state Department of Environmental Protection gain primary enforcement authority, or primacy, over underground carbon dioxide injection wells. Just two states currently have that authority.
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The West Virginia House of Delegates Energy and Manufacturing Committee advanced legislation in House Bill 5045 designed to help the Department of Environmental Protection obtain primacy over underground carbon dioxide injection wells. The DEP s pursuit of primacy over the federal Class VI program has divided environmentalists who say the agency isn t prepared for the responsibility and carbon sequestration and blue hydrogen proponents who say it would ease permitting and foster economic growth
West Virginia officials are taking comment on a proposed legislative rule to establish procedures for a design-build program under a state law passed in March aimed at fast-tracking projects supported
A state of West Virginia-led coalition has garnered federal support for a hydrogen production-based hub of energy and economic development touted by West Virginia political and industrial leaders and eyed