The U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has released long-awaited draft safety rules for carbon dioxide (CO2) pipelines, in the final days of the Biden administration.
Speakers Bill Caram, from the Pipeline Safety Trust, and Paul Blackburn, attorney and pipeline expert with Bold Alliance, on Jan. 28 presented an overview of the proposed new rules and hosted a discussion of their implications for impacted landowners and communities. The program was presented by Bold Alliance, Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN), Illinois Coalition to Stop CO2 Pipelines, Dakota Rural Action (South Dakota), Dakota Resource Council (North Dakota), CURE (Minnesota) and Iowa Chapter Sierra Club,
As the proposed PHMSA CO2 pipeline safety rulemaking was not published to the Federal Register before the turnover in administrations, it will be up to Trump now to move the rulemaking forward. Currently, the future of these proposed CO2 pipeline safety rules remains in limbo, after an Executive Order issued by Trump froze actions taken by the previous administration.
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