America’s industrial sector powers the economy, supports good-paying jobs, and fuels innovation nationwide. However, it faces growing pressure to modernize, reduce pollution, and stay competitive in a changing world. Continue reading »
Carbon Capture Coalition Releases 2025 Federal Policy Blueprint
March 10, 2025 in Carbon Management Author: Patrice Lahlum
The United States is at a pivotal moment in the deployment of carbon management technologies. The nationwide adoption of carbon management technologies is crucial for balancing the increasing need for affordable, reliable energy that drives the American economy with the global imperative to reduce carbon emissions. Continue reading »
GPI’s Carbon Capture Coalition Releases Federal Policy Blueprint
May 9, 2023 in Carbon Management, Reports & Whitepapers Author: Patrice Lahlum
We need federal and state policies to support carbon management technologies essential to reducing planet-warming carbon emissions in the atmosphere. In a 2023 Federal Policy Blueprint released April 24, the Carbon Capture Coalition outlines a road map on how the 118th Congress can support responsible scale-up of the carbon management industry to accomplish this. Convened by the Great Plains Institute, the more than 100 Carbon Capture Coalition members spanning industry, labor, conservation, environmental policy, and nonprofit organizations joined together to create this consensus-based federal road map. Continue reading »
EPA’s Class VI Well Program Key to Deploying CO2 Geologic Storage
February 17, 2022 in Carbon Management Author: Patrice Lahlum
Commercial interest in carbon management technologies and projects is growing rapidly, with nearly 90 publicly announced projects throughout the United States. More than 70 percent of the announced projects intend to store captured carbon dioxide (CO2) deep underground safely and permanently in saline geologic formations. As more projects ramp up, the need for expanded permitting capacity by federal and state authorities could dramatically increase. Continue reading »
Carbon Capture Potential Spans US
April 21, 2021 in Carbon Management Authors: Elizabeth Abramson, Patrice Lahlum
Capturing and utilizing carbon dioxide (CO2) is essential to achieving a clean energy, net-zero carbon future. And reimagining the alignment of industry and infrastructure presents exciting opportunities for states and regions across the country. Deploying CO2 transport and storage infrastructure will enable key sectors of our economy to dramatically reduce their carbon emissions while sustaining and growing domestic industry, manufacturing, and energy production and the high-wage American jobs they support. Continue reading »
CO2NNECT Virtual Series Opens by Focusing on Jobs and Carbon Capture
December 16, 2020 in Carbon Management Authors: Jill Syvrud, Patrice Lahlum
Great Plains Institute convened the first CO2NNECT Virtual event on December 14, which highlighted the recently released and first-of-its-kind analysis from Rhodium Group that focused on the potential job growth and economic impact of carbon capture deployment in the near- to medium-term to help meet midcentury decarbonization goals. The event included an analytical presentation by Rhodium Group followed by a reaction panel discussion moderated by former US Senator Heidi Heitkamp. Continue reading »
National Regulatory Utility Commissioners Urge Federal Action on Carbon Capture
November 13, 2020 in Carbon Management Author: Patrice Lahlum
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) reaffirmed their support for deployment of carbon capture technologies during their annual meeting this week. NARUC also recently collaborated with the Western Interstate Energy Board to host a six-part webinar series on carbon capture, utilization, and storage. Continue reading »
Analysis Shows State-Level Economic and Jobs Benefits of Carbon Capture
October 30, 2020 in Carbon Management Author: Patrice Lahlum
A new state-level analysis shows that retrofitting existing facilities with carbon capture and deploying carbon dioxide (CO2) transport infrastructure can deliver jobs and economic benefits while reducing emissions across industries. The Great Plains Institute recently commissioned Rhodium Group to conduct an independent, state-by-state analysis exploring the economic benefits of carbon capture deployment opportunities in the US. GPI identified the facilities examined in this analysis as carbon capture retrofit projects with near- to medium-term feasibility. Continue reading »
Crabtree Submits Congressional Testimony on the Federal Role in Scaling a Carbon Capture Industry
August 25, 2020 in Carbon Management Author: Patrice Lahlum
Great Plains Institute Vice President for Carbon Management Brad Crabtree submitted written testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to inform a Wyoming field hearing this week examining “Energy and Environmental Innovation: Wyoming’s Leadership in Using and Storing Carbon Dioxide Emissions.” Continue reading »
Regional Industrial Initiative Releases Federal Policy Recommendations for U.S. Economic Recovery and Long-Term Emissions Reductions in American Industry
July 23, 2020 in Carbon Management, News & Press Authors: Brad Crabtree, Jill Syvrud, Patrice Lahlum
(Washington, D.C.) – The Industrial Innovation Initiative, an ambitious coalition of key industrial and power companies, environmental organizations, and state officials from Midwestern and Gulf Coast states focused on decarbonization solutions for the region’s most important industrial sectors, submitted recommendations to Congress today outlining measures for consideration in COVID-19-related federal economic recovery legislation. Continue reading »
