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Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration Guidance

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Center for Biological Diversity filed 2 comments on this docket between Mar 3, 2022 and Apr 19, 2022. 43 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 1562d ago.

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Apr 19, 2022· Comment from Center for Biological Diversity, Food and Water Watch, Center for International Environmental Law· CEQ-2022-0001-0098

The Center for Biological Diversity, Food and Water Watch, and the Center for International Environmental Law appreciate the opportunity to comment on CEQ's Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration Guidance. Unfortunately, the Proposed Guidance does little to actually guide better understanding of the public health, safety, and environmental risks and impacts of carbon capture, utilization, and storage ("CCUS") deployment, let alone ensure their prevention. Instead, CEQ offers—at best—only vague suggestions that agencies might want to consider these impacts when permitting CCUS projects, and—at worst—unquestioning cheerleading for the rapid adoption of carbon capture technologies that could prolong the use of fossil fuels, forestall adoption of proven and less harmful approaches, and put people's wellbeing and the environment at risk. Please see attached for our detailed comments that detail the Proposed Guidance's shortcomings and offer suggestions for CEQ to transform the Proposed Guidance into something more useful for decisionmakers and the public. After considering the enclosed comments and others—particularly from communities that stand to be most directly impacted by CCUS deployment—we ask that CEQ revise its Proposed Guidance and release another draft for public input, this time with at least 60 days built in for review and consideration by the public.

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Mar 3, 2022· Comment from Center for Biological Diversity and Center for International Environmental Law· CEQ-2022-0001-0004

The CEQ announced its goals to "incorporate the input of communities and reflect the best available science" by providing 30 days for public comment on its Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration Guidance, 87 Federal Register 8808 (February 16, 2022). Yet 30 days is simply not enough time to achieve these goals. On behalf of our collective millions of members and supporters nationwide, the over 100 organizations joining the attached letter request that you extend the period for public comment on the proposed CCUS Guidance to at least 60 days in order to allow for review of CEQ's complex proposal, particularly by communities that stand to be most directly impacted by CCUS projects. An extension of the comment period on the Proposed CCUS Guidance is warranted given (1) the novelty of CCUS at scale and broad scope of issues raised by the proposal; (2) the risks to public safety, health, and the environment posed by CCUS; and (3) the tremendous public interest in this topic. Please let us know of your decision promptly.

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