A group of nine environmental organizations sent a letter to the Department of Energy secretary requesting the initiation of a multi-agency environmental impact statement looking at Enchant Energy’s proposal to retrofit the San Juan Generating Station with carbon capture technology. If an EIS is required, it would delay the project substantially, but the environmental advocates […]
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The Biden administration intends to focus more on capturing the carbon emissions of natural gas plants and industrial manufacturing facilities than from coal-fired power, a top Energy Department official said.
It s a shift for the federal government s carbon capture program, which, until recently, has spent significant funds and resources on attaching carbon capture to power plants, especially coal. The Trump administration saw the technology as a lifeline for coal-fired power, whereas the Biden administration views it as essential to decarbonize harder-to-abate sectors of the economy, such as steel, chemical, and cement production.
Carbon capture, which removes carbon from the smokestacks of power plants or industrial facilities to be stored underground, hasn t been widely commercialized yet because it is still costly. However, many climate models and scientific reports, including the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, say carbon capture