EPA Developing Policy On CO2 Storage, But Faces Long-Term Questions

March 15, 2006
EPA is developing first-time guidelines addressing the permitting of pilot projects for underground carbon dioxide (CO2) storage -- an alternative to letting the greenhouse gas escape into the atmosphere -- in what agency and other sources say is likely a prelude to further decisions facing regulators on how to oversee geologic storage of the gas to combat global warming. But since the policy will focus on pilot projects, the agency will still face questions over how to deal with the...


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