“The railroad commissioners are on the record either deriding federal climate standards or saying they don’t believe in human-induced climate change,” said Virginia Palacios, executive director of a group working to reform the RRC called Commission Shift, in a statement. She added that should disqualify them “from overseeing such a complex and significant technology.”
The RRC’s application will now go to a public comment period before the EPA makes its decision. Commission Shift said it’s joining more than a dozen other Texas-based groups in asking the EPA to continue overseeing carbon capture projects instead of turning that power solely over to the RRC.
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