CIEL President to testify on the risks and impacts of carbon capture and storage along the US Gulf Coast during upcoming House Subcommittee hearing
Washington, DC — Tomorrow morning, the Center for International Environmental Law will provide expert testimony on the profound limits and growing risks of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. The hearing, “The Opportunities and Risks of Offshore Carbon Storage in the Gulf of Mexico,” will include CIEL President Carroll Muffett, alongside witnesses from the Gulf Coast Carbon Center, Environmental Defense Fund, and the National Ocean Industries Association.
Muffett’s testimony will address 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. Muffett will highlight the growing health and environmental risks of CCS to frontline and fenceline communities, which fall disproportionately on communities of color. Finally, he will discuss how proposed offshore carbon dioxide storage in the Gulf of Mexico could increase the risks of environmental harm.
WHAT: House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources hearing, “The Opportunities and Risks of Offshore Carbon Storage in the Gulf of Mexico.”
WHERE: Longworth House Office Building, Room 1324; Virtual: Watch the live stream of the hearing.
WHEN: Thursday, April 28, 2022, 9:30 am EDT
Carroll Muffett’s written testimony is here.
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS:
- 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
Media contact:
Cate Bonacini, press@ciel.org, +1-202-742-5847
Posted on April 27, 2022