Appropriators Seek Ramped-Up DOE Industrial Decarbonization Efforts

House appropriators are embracing Department of Energy (DOE) efforts to ramp up demonstration projects for technologies to decarbonize the industrial sector, even as they are pressing officials to craft appropriate criteria for managing possible environmental risks of one such technology, carbon capture and storage (CCS). The views surface in report language accompanying DOE’s draft fiscal year 2023 spending bill -- released ahead of the full Appropriations Committee’s June 28 markup of the so-called “energy and water” bill. The legislation also...