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Committee approves substitute requiring carbon storage projects to protect mineral owners
Summary
A committee substitute for Senate Bill 899 was agreed to that would require the Department of Environmental Protection to ensure carbon sequestration projects isolate commercially valuable minerals and notify mineral owners; EQT testified in support.
The committee agreed to a committee substitute for Senate Bill 899 and voted to report it to the full Senate with a recommendation that it pass.
Under the substitute, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) may issue a permit for a carbon sequestration project only if the storage operator designs the project to isolate any existing or future production from commercially valuable minerals (including coal and oil-and-gas…
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