EPA Rejects Energy Sector Claim Of Utility ESPS Hindering EOR Activities

摘要

EPA is rejecting energy companies' claim that the agency's greenhouse gas (GHG) rule for existing power plants will hinder enhanced oil recovery (EOR) using carbon dioxide captured from utilities by inadvertently subjecting such activities to more onerous GHG reporting, saying nothing in the rule would prohibit such operations. The agency is responding to concerns raised in an opening brief and a separate non-binding statement of issues filed by EOR operators in litigation over the power plant rule, testing how EPA will apply its GHG reporting mandates to joint EOR and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects. A coalition of industry groups says the existing source performance standards (ESPS) rule triggers "far more burdensome" reporting.