Carbon Capture Coalition Publishes 2025 Federal Policy Blueprint Outlining Policies Necessary for Nationwide Scale-Up of Carbon Management Technologies

(Carbon Capture Coalition) Consensus-Based Roadmap Was Developed by the Broad, Bipartisan Coalition Representing Business, Labor and NGO Communities -- Today, the Carbon Capture Coalition released its 2025 Federal Policy Blueprint, a consensus-based roadmap of essential, common-sense policy, regulatory, and implementation recommendations for the 119th Congress and the new administration to support the rapid, responsible scale up of carbon management technologies nationwide.

The Carbon Capture Coalition is the national voice for carbon management technologies—working to enact and implement the necessary supportive domestic policy framework to enable the economywide, commercial-scale deployment of carbon management technologies. It is a nonpartisan collaboration of more than 100 companies, unions, conservation organizations, and environmental policy organizations.

“Since 2019, before the beginning of each Congress, Coalition members have successfully worked together on a consensus basis to develop a set of policy recommendations for carbon management technology deployment,” explained Carbon Capture Coalition Executive Director Jessie Stolark.

“As a consensus-based organization focused on achieving durable, effective policies for the scale up of carbon management, our broad, diverse membership stands behind this resource as an essential policy roadmap because they helped to develop it. These recommendations, if enacted, will spur continued deployment of carbon management technologies to reach commercial scale in the next decade,” Stolark continued.

Carbon capture, removal, transport, reuse, and storage technologies, commonly called carbon management, are a portfolio of safe, reliable, and increasingly cost-effective technologies to manage, abate, and remove carbon emissions from industrial facilities, power plants, and directly from the air. Captured carbon is then reused to manufacture valuable products or transported to appropriate sites for secure geologic storage. Carbon management technologies must continue to be a central piece of a broader federal strategy in providing affordable, reliable energy for American businesses, industrial production, and families.

Carbon management policy has been a rare bright spot in energy and environment policy in the US over the past decade, garnering support from Republicans and Democrats alike. Supportive policies, including the 45Q tax credit, have been included in some of Congress’s most significant legislative achievements. However, inflation and other economic factors have created headwinds for deploying these technologies. These economic pressures necessitate additional policies to ensure these technologies can continue contributing to America’s economy while supporting energy and environmental goals.

“Despite impressive progress over a few short years, the sectors that make up the carbon management value chain face significant headwinds to maturing and deploying nationwide. Without enhancements to the existing policy framework, we risk not only the commercialization of projects already in the pipeline but the broader deployment of these technologies across sectors,” said Stolark. “These policies mark the beginning, not the end, of the efforts to build the portfolio of necessary federal policies for the economywide deployment of carbon management technologies,” Stolark added.

Recent federal and private sector investment has helped spur the announcement of more than 270 carbon management projects nationwide. The Coalition’s blueprint contains a set of recommendations for the 119^th Congress, including addressing growing inflationary pressures, improving permitting systems across the value chain, expanding markets, and investing in innovative, next-generation carbon management technologies to help ensure these projects and this industry come to fruition. The suite of recommendations will help safeguard our global position, meet growing energy demand, and drive economic growth and stability in energy regions across the US.

“This blueprint offers a pragmatic roadmap to ensure America’s leadership position in carbon management technology deployment. Congress and the administration now have the opportunity to solidify and grow the role of American leadership in developing and deploying these technologies so they can scale economywide throughout the remainder of this decade and beyond,” Stolark concluded.

To read the Carbon Capture Coalition’s 2025 Federal Policy Blueprint, click here.

The Carbon Capture Coalition (the Coalition) is a nonpartisan collaboration of more than 100 companies, labor unions, and conservation and environmental policy organizations. Coalition members work together to lay the groundwork for the necessary portfolio of federal policies to enable nationwide, commercial-scale deployment of carbon management technologies. READ MORE