Debate Over CCUS’ Role Heats Up In California Amid Divisions Over EOR

Debate is heating up in the California Legislature about the extent to which the state should support carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) projects to help meet its aggressive climate change objectives, and Democrats are divided over whether enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects should benefit under pending legislation to bolster CCUS. “[T]hat outstanding issue of what kinds of projects are allowed, and how the interplay between [pending legislation] would work, in terms of allowances of enhanced oil recovery or other...