States jockey for carbon storage authority from Trump EPAEnergy Wire, PoliticoMedia Coverage | Feb 06, 2025

The new administration will decide which jurisdictions get a green light to permit CO2 wells.

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By Carlos Anchondo

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (left) and President Donald Trump. Francis Chung/POLITICO, AFP via Getty

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Environmental law organization Earthjustice and watchdog group Commission Shift argued to EPA in May that “through mismanagement and inadequate resourcing, the State of Texas has utterly failed to implement and enforce strong protections to ensure the oil and gas waste from Class II underground injection wells do not contaminate aquifers.”

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