Carbon Capture Coalition Submits Memos to Presidential Campaigns

In preparation for the upcoming general election on November 5, the Carbon Capture Coalition submitted memos to former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaigns.

The world faces a dual challenge; global energy demand has increased significantly over the past several decades while the urgency of addressing planet-warming emissions has only increased. This challenge reinforces the need and urgency for a comprehensive, multifaceted domestic strategy to address and mitigate the worst impacts of climate change and preserve and create family-sustaining jobs that local economies depend on all while maintaining affordable, reliable American energy.

Carbon management technologies, including carbon capture, removal, reuse, transport, and storage, are crucial tools for balancing the increasing need for affordable, reliable energy that drives the American economy while reducing carbon emissions. As US policymakers continue to develop and enact energy and emissions reduction policy solutions, carbon management technologies must continue to be a central piece of a federal climate and energy strategy. Deployment of these technologies across emitting sectors will play an important and complementary role in meeting midcentury climate targets while enabling and prioritizing sustainable, equitable energy, industrial, and manufacturing production with communities across America.

These memos emphasize the important role a strong carbon management policy framework will play in a broader domestic climate and energy policy portfolio and demonstrate carbon management’s ability to convene a coalition of unlikely collaborators to forge durable, bipartisan policy solutions.

You can find the memo to former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign here.

You can find the memo to Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign here.

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Convened by the Great Plains Institute, the Carbon Capture Coalition is a nonpartisan collaboration of more than 100 companies, unions, conservation and environmental policy organizations, building federal policy support to enable economywide, commercial scale deployment of carbon management technologies. This includes carbon capture, removal, transport, utilization, and storage from industrial facilities, power plants, and ambient air.