Environmentalists Urge Forest Service Not To Ease Land Rules For CCS

Environmental groups are criticizing a planned rule that would ease deployment of carbon storage projects on U.S. Forest Service land, as other agencies and states try to piece together a regulatory landscape for the carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry that is growing amid Biden administration support. At issue is a rule that the Forest Service is expected to propose soon that would amend application requirements and procedures “to allow exclusive or perpetual right of use or occupancy” of National...