CEQ Announces Members of Task Forces to Inform Responsible Development and Deployment of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) today announced members of two new task forces that will provide input to inform the responsible development of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration (CCUS). The task forces, which are required by the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) Act, will provide recommendations to the Federal government on how to ensure that CCUS projects, including carbon dioxide pipelines, are permitted in an efficient manner, reflect the input and needs of a wide range of stakeholders, and deliver benefits rather than harms to local communities.

CEQ sought applications from a diverse range of candidates. The members of the new committees have experience with carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration, including on matters of environmental justice and carbon dioxide pipeline safety, and represent state, local and Tribal governments; Federal agencies; environmental non-governmental organizations; and developers or operators of CCUS projects. One task force will focus on CCUS permitting and development issues on Federal lands and the Outer Continental Shelf. The other will focus on CCUS permitting and development issues on non-Federal lands.

Carbon management technologies have the potential to cut pollution in communities across the nation while creating good jobs and accelerating our efforts to meet the President's goal of a net-zero emissions economy by 2050. Consistent with the USE IT Act, CEQ issued guidance in February 2021 to help Federal agencies advance CCUS technologies in a responsible manner that incorporates the input of communities and reflects the best available science. That guidance builds on CEQ's June 2021 CCUS report and identifies ways to facilitate sound and transparent environmental reviews for CCUS projects.

The following individuals will be formally appointed once the task forces are chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

Members of the Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration Federal Lands and Outer Continental Shelf Permitting Task Force:

Members of the Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization and Sequestration Non-Federal Lands Permitting Task Force:

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