{"id":33584,"date":"2023-03-21T17:05:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T17:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/?p=33584"},"modified":"2024-02-06T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T15:52:10","slug":"carbon-capture-permit-backlog-threatens-climate-progress-real-clear-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/our-take\/carbon-capture-permit-backlog-threatens-climate-progress-real-clear-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Capture Permit Backlog Threatens Climate Progress (Real Clear Energy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This op-ed was originally published by Real Clear Energy on March 21, 2023. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearenergy.org\/articles\/2023\/03\/21\/carbon_capture_permit_backlog_threatens_climate_progress_888379.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> to read the entire piece.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s energy economy is at a reckoning point and we must not allow the vast domestic resources, nor the investments in new clean energy technologies, to be squandered.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 energy tax incentives, along with the bipartisan infrastructure law of 2021 and increasing private sector investments in innovation have the potential to catapult U.S. clean energy projects and firmly establish American global leadership in clean energy deployment.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s truly an unprecedented moment and one that the United States can\u2019t afford to let pass by. But all of this potential will be little more than talking points if projects cannot be permitted in a timely manner. Nowhere is this more apparent than in carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), which the International Energy Agency has said will be \u201cnecessary to meet national, regional and even corporate net zero goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the surface, moving more CCS projects has the support of both parties in Congress and the White House. President Biden\u2019s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?526596-1\/epa-administrator-michael-regan-energy-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told energy executives<\/a> at the CERAWeek conference in Houston that \u201ccarbon capture and storage is a priority for this Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was music to the ears of many climate advocates, like myself, as well as the many energy project developers who are awaiting approvals for their CCS projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearenergy.org\/articles\/2023\/03\/21\/carbon_capture_permit_backlog_threatens_climate_progress_888379.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> to read the full article<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s energy economy is at a reckoning point and we must not allow the vast domestic resources, nor the investments in new clean energy technologies, to be squandered. The 2022 energy tax incentives, along with the bipartisan infrastructure law of 2021 and increasing private sector investments in innovation have the potential to catapult U.S. clean energy projects and firmly establish American global leadership in clean energy deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":33585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"wds_primary_category":19,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[15,32,17,45],"class_list":["post-33584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-take","tag-carbon-capture","tag-carbon-dioxide-removal","tag-innovation","tag-op-ed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}