Resolutions: Subcommittee on Clean Coal and Carbon Sequestration

  • Resolution on Carbon Capture and Enhanced Oil Recovery
    adopted July 20, 2011
    The resolution (i) supports State policies to encourage the use of carbon dioxide from power plants in petroleum recovery operations, (ii) urges the federal government to restore and increase funding as quickly as possible, and (iii) eliminate regulatory impediments.
     
  • Resolution on Increased Flexibility for the Implementation of EPA Rulemakings
    adopted July 20, 2011
    The resolution (i) supports efforts to promote State and federal environmental and energy policies that will enhance the reliability of the nation's energy supply and minimize cost impacts, (ii) encourages utilities to plan for EPA regulations and explore all options for complying with such regulations in order to minimize costs to ratepayers, (iii) encourages FERC to work with the EPA to develop a process that requires generators to provide notice to FERC, system operators, and State regulators of expected effects of forthcoming EPA regulations on operating plants to allow an opportunity for meaningful assessment and response to reliability issues, (iv) encourages NARUC and its members to actively coordinate with their environmental regulatory counterparts, FERC, and the electric power sector ensuring electric system reliability and encourage the use of all available tools that provide flexibility in EPA regulation requirements reflecting the timeline and cost efficiency concerns embodied in this resolution to ensure continuing emission reduction progress while minimizing capital costs, rate increases, and other economic impacts while meeting public health and environmental goals.