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Just a few weeks ago the Trump administration as well as the new head of the EPA, declassified CO2 as a “pollutant.”
The question then became, will Wyoming end its law and state funding of carbon sequestration?
The state legislator tried to in the last session.
Defunding carbon sequestration was tucked into the wildfire funding bill at the last moment.
The Governor used his line-item veto to cut it out.
The money is for private as well as federal projects related to carbon capture.
Funds were earmarked for storage, carbon dioxide transportation, industrial carbon capture, coal refineries, hydrogen production, transportation, storage, hydrogen hub development, biomass, biochar, hydropower, lithium, processing and separation, battery storage or wind and solar energy.
“Carbon is an incredibly important building block, and so putting Wyoming out in the lead to be able to come to new technologies, new ways to be able to use it, (is) absolutely critical,” Gordon said on Wednesday.
“I’m really disappointed that somehow in the political squash of the session, we lost our way on really being that supportive of our energy industry.”
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