Congressional Hearing on Carbon Capture in the Gulf

The House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources is hosting a hearing on “The Opportunities and Risks of CCS in the Gulf of Mexico.”

Center for International Environmental Law’s (CIEL) President, Carroll Muffett, will be testifying, speaking about the limited potential, high costs, and history of failures of CCS, and how the false promise of CCS threatens to entrench fossil fuels and slow the transition to clean and renewable energy.

The hearing will start at 8:30am CT on April 28th.​

• Center for International Environmental Law, Confronting the Myth of Carbon-Free Fossil Fuels: Why Carbon Capture is Not a Climate Solution
• Center for International Environmental Law, Red, Black & Green New Deal Initiative at the Movement for Black Lives, and The Alliance for Affordable Energy, Carbon Capture and Storage: An Expensive and Dangerous Proposition for Louisiana
• Center for International Environmental Law, Food and Water Watch, Center for Biological Diversity, Comments on the Council for Environmental Quality’s “Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration Guidance,” 87 Federal Register 8808 (February 16, 2022)
• Center for International Environmental Law, Heinrich Boell Foundation, IPCC Unsummarized: Unmasking Clear Warnings on Overshoot, Techno-fixes, and the Urgency of Climate Justice
• Center for International Environmental Law, Fuel to the Fire: How Geoengineering Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Accelerate the Climate Crisis