State Regulatory Primacy – Hoeven recently secured approval from the EPA for North Dakota’s application for regulatory primacy over Class VI injection wells, which are used for the geologic or long-term storage of CO2. Today’s roundtable with Pruitt is part of Hoeven’s ongoing efforts to provide regulatory certainty and funding for EERC and North Dakota’s energy industry to help develop and deploy CCS technology: It’s important that Administrator Pruitt understand the implications of these local efforts as he works to improve our nation’s regulatory environment, and I will continue working with him to do just that.” Further, CCS can also reduce emissions for renewable energy like biofuels, allowing North Dakota products to be sold in more markets like states on the West Coast. “By providing a commercially-viable path forward for coal as a part of our nation’s energy mix, the technologies being developed here will help deliver affordable and reliable energy for our nation’s businesses and families. “The efforts of the EERC are vital to ensuring the energy security of our nation,” Hoeven said. Hoeven stressed the potential benefits for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) to reduce emissions for both traditional and renewable energy sources. – Senator John Hoeven today hosted Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for a tour and energy roundtable at the Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota (UND). Also, CEMBUREAU says the EU should act to enable a level playing field on carbon, provide regulatory certainty and an ambitious industrial transformation agenda.īy 2030, CEMBUREAU says it aspires to be in line with the Paris Agreement's two degrees scenario, reducing CO2 emissions by 30% for cement and 40% down the value chain.08.09.17 Hoeven: CCS Will Help Shape Nation's Energy Future Senator Hosts EPA Administrator at EERC, Advancing Regulatory Certainty & Funding for CCS Projects It adds that these areas include the development of a pan-European CO2 transportation and storage network, decisive action on circular economy to support the use of non-recyclable waste and biomass waste in cement production, and ambitious policies to reduce European building's CO2 footprint, based on a life-cycle approach, that incentivise the market uptake of low-carbon cements. These technologies include the use of non-recyclable and biomass waste to replace fossil fuels, more energy-efficient kilns, the development of innovative low-clinker cements, the deployment of breakthrough carbon capture and storage/use technologies (CCUS) and optimised concrete mixes and building techniques.īrussels-based CEMBUREAU says that to achieve the 2050 target, the sector will need decisive political action from the EU in some key areas. It quantifies the role of technologies in providing CO2 emissions savings, making concrete political and technical recommendations to support this objective. The Roadmap looks at how CO2 emissions can be reduced by acting at each stage of the value chain – clinker, cement, concrete, construction and (re)carbonation – to achieve zero net emissions by 2050.