Seven Carbon Capture Policy Priorities for the Biden-Harris Administration

The policy brief argues that carbon capture is a bipartisan avenue for climate action and proposes seven priorities: optimizing the 45Q tax credit, investing in CO2 transport and storage infrastructure, expanding the Department of Energy's mission, decarbonizing hard-to-abate industries, scaling up low-carbon hydrogen, establishing leadership in carbon removal, and aligning capital flows with innovation needs.

• The 45Q tax credit has supported over 30 carbon capture projects, including direct air capture and industrial applications, but it is scheduled to expire in 2024. Extending this credit could potentially enable an annual capture capacity of over 150 million tonnes of CO2 in industrial sectors and create up to 60,000 jobs.
• United States carbon capture projects are primarily designed as single-source, single-sink facilities, which lacks the economies of scale seen in the EU, Norway, and the UK, where investments are made in joint transport and storage facilities.

APA

Beck, L. (2020). Seven Carbon Capture Policy Priorities for the Biden-Harris Administration. Clean Air Task Force. https://www.catf.us/2020/12/seven-carbon-capture-policy-priorities-biden-harris-administration/

Chicago

Beck, Lee. Seven Carbon Capture Policy Priorities for the Biden-Harris Administration. Clean Air Task Force, 2020. https://www.catf.us/2020/12/seven-carbon-capture-policy-priorities-biden-harris-administration/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{beck2020seven, author = {Beck, Lee}, title = {{Seven Carbon Capture Policy Priorities for the Biden-Harris Administration}}, institution = {Clean Air Task Force}, year = {2020}, month = dec, url = {https://www.catf.us/2020/12/seven-carbon-capture-policy-priorities-biden-harris-administration/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }