Former Trump Officials Urge EPA To Speed Louisiana CCS Permit Power

Former Trump EPA officials are urging the Biden administration to quickly approve Louisiana and other states’ pending applications for “primacy” to permit carbon dioxide storage projects, arguing it would help fulfill the agency’s pledge to encourage states’ applications and would help the administration’s decarbonization goals. In a Sept. 28 analysis , lawyers Dave Ross and Anna Wildeman, the two top officials in the Trump EPA’s Office of Water (OW) who now practice law at Troutman Pepper, charge that EPA has...