ACTIVISTS, INDUSTRY REACH CONSENSUS ON EPA CO_2 STORAGE RULE ISSUES

摘要

Environmentalists and the energy industry have agreed on a few more changes they would like to see EPA make to its proposed rule designed to protect drinking water sources from contamination caused by carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) wells, including new limits on what type of storage wells are governed by the rule.rnThe 20 groups - including American Petroleum Institute, BP America, Edison Electric Institute, Environmental Defense Fund and Natural Resources Defense Council - are calling for EPA to narrow its rule to limit the types of formations included under the new Class VI well category to hydrocarbon reservoirs and deep saline formations.