A pair of Senate Republicans pressed a Department of Energy nominee over the fate of carbon capture programs Thursday, after the White House threatened to cut back funding for the technology.
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski told Kyle Haustveit, nominee to head the Office of Fossil Energy, that two carbon capture projects in her home state of Alaska are threatened amid the agency’s ongoing spending review.
“Both of these [projects] are in limbo right now,” Murkowski said during Haustveit’s Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee confirmation hearing. “We’re concerned that they may be on a DOE list of cuts going to the White House.”
The agency’s carbon capture programs have faced even more uncertainty after the release of the White House’s budget request last week, which called fror ending “Green New Scam” funding to projects that “remove carbon dioxide from the air.”
