Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, led a hearing on advancing carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) technologies, and examining the implementation of the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies Act or USE IT Act.

During the hearing, Chairman Capito questioned Kevin Connors, Assistant Director for Regulatory Compliance and Energy Policy at the Energy and Environmental Research Center; Dan Yates, Executive Director of the Ground Water Protection Council; and Jack Andreasen Cavanaugh, Manager of Carbon Management, U.S. Policy and Advocacy at Breakthrough Energy. In her questions, Chairman Capito asked about the pace of USE IT Act implementation, how to improve the permitting process for CCUS projects, and the importance of bipartisanship in these efforts. 

Read more from the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works here.

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