CCS Supporters Say Federal ‘Mixed Signals’ Could Restrict Development

October 9, 2025
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) proponents are expressing ongoing frustration that the Trump administration’s “mixed” support for CCS projects, as well as its broad disavowal of climate mitigation efforts, threatens to restrict development of the technology. The U.S. is seeing “some uncertainty and mixed signals [that] could curtail CCS deployment,” the Global CCS Institute says in its Oct. 9 annual CCS status report . Even so, the report broadly argues that CCS advancement is “staying the course” globally. Progress includes...


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