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Current Action Alert
EPA Proposes New Requirements for Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has filed a rule proposal to regulate the geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide. The proposed rule does not cover carbon dioxide emissions or modify the existing regulations on carbon dioxide injection for enhanced oil or gas recovery. Rather it regulates the long-term use of carbon dioxide in the subsurface. The deadline for providing comments is November 24, 2008.
New information: Read EPA’s summarization pdfIssued 08/28/2006
Occasionally, the AAPG DPA Governmental Affairs Committee (GAC) will be sending email AAPG GAC Action Alerts. An action alert will inform you about a current Executive Branch and/or Congressional issue that will potentially affect the oil and gas industry.
David Curtiss, Director of the AAPG Office of Geoscience and Energy in Washington, DC, will identify the necessity for alerts, and he will work with the Chairperson of the GAC to issue the alert. The alert will be a short e-mail that will highlight the issue and direct you to this Web site. Each alert will consist of background, a suggested response, support information, and the place to submit your comments.
You are welcome to comment on the issues in the way that suits you, if you want to comment at all. Of course, you are under no obligation to do anything, but the GAC encourages you to provide your comments whenever you can. This will support the GEO-DC's liaison work in Washington, DC and through this effort AAPG's reputation as a credible provider of pertinent geologically-based information will grow and become more valuable to those who are shaping our Nation's polices and laws. Won't you please help?
The action alerts are now being issued directly from AAPG in Tulsa. Send an email to Norma Newby at nnewby@aapg.org .
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