{"id":38715,"date":"2023-09-01T16:50:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T16:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38715"},"modified":"2024-11-12T20:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T20:00:46","slug":"38715-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/?news=38715-2","title":{"rendered":"Omnibus Deal Boosts Clean, Reliable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<center>\n            <table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" id=\"bodyTable\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;height: 100%;margin: 0;padding: 0;width: 100%;background-color: #FAFAFA;\">\n                <tr>\n                    <td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" id=\"bodyCell\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;height: 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Rundown will take a break next week and be back April 6.&nbsp;Feedback is still always&nbsp;welcome at <a href=\"http:\/\/info@saperemarketing.com\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #9d1c20;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color:#B22222\">info@clearpathaction.org<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<hr>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n            <tr>\n                <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n                    <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        <tbody><tr>\n                            <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                \n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/jay-and-richs-take\/richs-take-why-we-need-moonshot-clean-energy-tech-goals\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" rel=\"noopener\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2024\/11\/b5782d8e-924b-49f2-8d53-7903d57ed7a6.jpg\" width=\"564\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1200px; 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&nbsp;<\/h1>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6e6e6e;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">Congress approved an FY18 omnibus spending bill that boosts clean and reliable energy funding across the board.&nbsp;<\/span><br>\n<br>\n<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">Among the highlights:<\/span><br>\n<br>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#B22222\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">ADVANCED NUCLEAR<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"list-style-type:disc;\">\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Nuclear Energy gets a 19 percent boost, to roughly $1.2 billion, including more money for research and development.<\/span><\/li>\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">Funding to begin design of a Versatile Fast Test Reactor \u2013 critical to advanced reactor development.<\/span><\/li>\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">Removal of a prohibition on directed funding for small modular reactor efforts and support for SMR R&amp;D.<\/span><\/li>\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">$10million for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to help license advanced reactors<\/span><\/li>\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">Large increase in Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies, including advanced modeling and simulation and crosscutting technologies.<\/span><\/li>\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">DOE is instructed to provide Congress with recommendations to set \u201caggressive, but achievable goals to demonstrate a variety of private-sector advanced reactor designs and fuel types by the late 2020s.\u201d This partially addresses bipartisan efforts from Sens. Jeff Flake and Martin Heinrich and Rep. Clay Higgins.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#B22222\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">INNOVATION<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\n\n<ul style=\"list-style-type:disc;\">\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">ARPA-E gets a big bump to $353 million<\/span><\/li>\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">DOE\u2019s energy innovation loan program office preserved and directed to process incoming applications<\/span><\/li>\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">$41 million ($10 million increase) for energy storage efforts at DOE\u2019s Office of Electricity<\/span><\/li>\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">DOE energy innovation hubs fully funded<\/span><\/li>\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">32% increase in funding (from $53 million to $70 million) for the R&amp;D account that could lead to breakthroughs in perovskite solar, a new material that could make printable or paintable solar that is potentially thinner and more efficient than today\u2019s panels<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#B22222\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">CARBON CAPTURE, STORAGE, UTILIZATION<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\n\n<ul style=\"list-style-type:disc;\">\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">Directs support for DOE\u2019s National Carbon Capture Center, which helps bridge the gap between laboratory research and large-scale demonstrations<\/span><\/li>\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">Funds research to improve production from enhanced oil recovery and unconventional reservoirs<\/span><\/li>\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">Authorizes $2 billion in loan guarantees for electric cooperatives to build carbon sequestration at power plants <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#B22222\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">HYDROPOWER<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\n\n<ul style=\"list-style-type:disc;\">\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">$35 million for conventional hydropower and pumped storage and $10 milion in competitive funding opportunity \u201cto test the commercial viability of new use cases for pumped storage hydropower at locations to enhance grid reliability and manage variability.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#B22222\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">WHAT\u2019S STILL MISSING?<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\n\n<ul style=\"list-style-type:disc;\">\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">A more fuel-neutral approach to carbon capture, storage and utilization research and funding to incentivize pre-commercial projects&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n\t<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1a-13ec-d369-5aebf0672695\">Lack of goals at DOE for energy storage, similar to those being drafted for advanced nuclear and also called for in bipartisan legislation led by Sens. Jeff Flake and Cory Booker<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n            <tr>\n                <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n                    <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        <tbody><tr>\n                            <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                \n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/jay-and-richs-take\/richs-take-why-we-need-moonshot-clean-energy-tech-goals\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" rel=\"noopener\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2024\/11\/3a3d1843-2ba7-4fb8-ab14-1fb93e674039.jpg\" width=\"564\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1200\/680;max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\">\n                                    <\/a>\n                                \n                            <\/td>\n                        <\/tr>\n                    <\/tbody><\/table>\n                <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n              \t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n\t\t\t    \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #6e6e6e;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n                        \n                            <h1 style=\"text-align: center;display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #163c6d;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;\">BARRASSO, WHITEHOUSE INTRO CO2 CAPTURE, PIPELINE BILL&nbsp;<\/h1>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6e6e6e;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 150%;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1c-f264-180a-b312010654e2\">Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman John Barrasso and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Thursday introduced the bipartisan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epw.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/0\/f\/0fd32eef-de44-4737-8453-5ff966ece095\/4325D95E20EDABD6DA299ADEA7FA6745.use-it-act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #9d1c20;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color:#B22222\">Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) Act<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, <\/span>which directs EPA to support efforts that reduce and utilize carbon emissions and direct air capture research. It also aims to improve permitting and deployment of carbon capture, utilization and sequestration facilities and the pipelines that would carry the CO2 to be used for enhanced oil recovery, storage, to be developed into products and for other purposes.<br>\n<br>\n<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1c-f264-180a-b312010654e2\">The bill is also cosponsored by Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Heidi Heitkamp as a follow-up to the FUTURE Act which extended and expanded the Section 45Q tax credit. (more on that below!)<\/span><br>\n<br>\n<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f1c-f264-180a-b312010654e2\">The USE IT Act narrowly amends the Clean Air Act to direct EPA to use existing authority to support carbon utilization and direct air capture research, clarifies that carbon capture projects and CO2 pipelines are eligible for expedited permitting reviews, directs the White House Council on Environmental Quality to establish guidance to help project developers and operators, and sets up task forces to hear from those affected in order to update this guidance when necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n            <tr>\n                <td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\">\n                    <table align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        <tbody><tr>\n                            <td class=\"mcnImageContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right: 9px;padding-left: 9px;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                \n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/jay-and-richs-take\/why-45q-matters-and-why-its-not-enough\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" rel=\"noopener\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2024\/11\/84552e66-31b9-4ff0-a983-f425b8e17105.jpg\" width=\"564\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1200\/680;max-width: 1200px;padding-bottom: 0;display: inline !important;vertical-align: bottom;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" class=\"mcnImage lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\">\n                                    <\/a>\n                                \n                            <\/td>\n                        <\/tr>\n                    <\/tbody><\/table>\n                <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n              \t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n\t\t\t    \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #6e6e6e;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n                        \n                            <h1 style=\"text-align: center;display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #163c6d;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;\">WHY 45Q MATTERS &#8211; AND WHY IT&#8217;S NOT ENOUGH<\/h1>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6e6e6e;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f22-356b-d146-454c187cd528\">The four USE IT Act sponsors were among those also leading the way when Congress fixed the Section 45Q carbon capture tax credit as part of a broader budget deal signed into law in February. It was a big, big deal. <\/span>This incentive would accelerate technologies that capture, store and utilize carbon emissions from existing and new coal and natural gas plants, as well as industrial facilities that produce a range of U.S. products.<br>\n<br>\n<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f22-356b-d146-454c187cd528\">But the new Barrasso-Whitehouse bill also illustrates how the promise of carbon capture technology can\u2019t rest on the 45Q fix alone. ClearPath Executive Director Rich Powell and our in-house clean fossil fuel expert Justin Ong explain in a new blog that an ambitious package of steady DOE dollars, private activity bonds, streamlined permitting and other regulatory fixes are still needed. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6e6e6e;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 150%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/jay-and-richs-take\/why-45q-matters-and-why-its-not-enough\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #9d1c20;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color:#B22222\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f22-356b-d146-454c187cd528\">RICH AND JUSTIN\u2019S TAKE: WHY 45Q MATTERS &#8211; AND WHY IT\u2019S NOT ENOUGH<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<hr>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n              \t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n\t\t\t    \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #6e6e6e;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n                        \n                            <h1 style=\"text-align: center;display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #163c6d;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;\">NEWS NUGGETS<\/h1>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6e6e6e;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f23-13bd-ccff-571b0f6b52ef\">Don\u2019t miss Sen. John Hoeven\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/opinion\/fossil-fuels-arent-dead-north-dakota-proof\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #9d1c20;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color:#B22222\">new op-ed in Roll Call<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, <\/span>explaining how the U.S. can lead on carbon capture and more broadly on global fossil energy innovation. \u201cYou can\u2019t find a better example of how public-private partnerships can spur innovation than Project Tundra,\u201d a joint effort to retrofit a North Dakota lignite coal power plant with carbon capture technology that DOE recently awarded $6 million.<br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<hr>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6e6e6e;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\"><br>\n<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f23-13bd-ccff-571b0f6b52ef\">Ahead of the omnibus rollout, Energy Secretary Rick Perry this week offered support for ARPA-E before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. <\/span>\u201cI have found some very, very positive things that have come out of it,\u201d he said. If Congress funds it, \u201cit will be operated in a way that you will be most pleased with,\u201d he added.<br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<hr>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6e6e6e;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\"><br>\n<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f23-13bd-ccff-571b0f6b52ef\">NRC Chairwoman Kristine Svinicki told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that pre-licensing conversations with NuScale and Oklo on their advanced nuclear designs \u201ccontinues to be very active.\u201d While NuScale has submitted their small modular reactor design, Oklo appears \u201cto be moving out of the pack with some serious intent there to submit a design in the coming years\u201d that will be even more advanced, Svinicki said.<\/span><br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<hr>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6e6e6e;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\"><br>\nCongress should ease restrictions on purchase power agreements between federal agencies and electric utilities,&nbsp;instruct DOE to relax certain export control regulations that have become unnecessarily cumbersome and order NRC to create a new regulatory regime for future nuclear reactors that is better able to assess risks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/policy-study\/step-change-improvements-to-u-s-nuclear-power-regulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #9d1c20;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color:#B22222\">according to a set of recommendations<\/span><\/strong><\/a> by R Street Institute.&nbsp;<br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<hr>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6e6e6e;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\"><br>\n<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f23-13bd-ccff-571b0f6b52ef\">FERC has granted an additional 30 days, until May 9, for public comments regarding an analysis by regional grid operators about the resilience of the nation\u2019s power grid. FERC has directed regional transmission operators to report on grid resilience.<\/span><br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<hr>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6e6e6e;font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\"><br>\n<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-30789c1a-4f23-13bd-ccff-571b0f6b52ef\">BP American President John Minge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bp.com\/en_us\/bp-us\/media-room\/press-releases\/susan-dio-appointed-chairman-and-president-of-bp-america.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #9d1c20;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color:#B22222\">will leave that job<\/span><\/strong><\/a> at the end of April to chair a National Petroleum Council study on carbon capture and storage 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