Center-Right Group Urges Biden EPA To Speed Permitting Of CCS Wells

A group that endorses “conservative” clean energy policies is urging the incoming Biden administration to speed EPA permitting of carbon dioxide injection wells by reviewing its standards for long-term CO2 storage and allowing oil recovery projects to follow less prescriptive well requirements in at least some cases. The group, ClearPath, suggests such a streamlining effort to avoid a potential permitting “logjam” under EPA’s Class VI rules for its underground injection control (UIC) program. Those standards focus on long-term CO2 sequestration...