Sec. 3401. Sense of the Senate on carbon capture, use, and storage development and deployment
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It is the sense of the Senate that— carbon capture, use, and storage deployment is— an important part of the clean energy future and smart research and development investments of the United States; and critical— to increasing the energy security of the United States; to reducing emissions; and to maintaining a diverse and reliable energy resource; the fossil energy programs of the Department should continue to focus on research and development of technologies that will improve the capture, transportation, use (including for the production through biofixation of carbon-containing products), and injection processes essential for carbon capture, use, and storage activities in the electrical and industrial sectors; the Secretary should continue to partner with the private sector and explore avenues to bring down the cost of carbon capture, including through loans, grants, and sequestration credits to help make carbon capture, use, and storage technologies more competitive compared to other technologies that are a part of the clean energy future of the United States; and the Secretary should continue working with international partners on pre-existing agreements, projects, and information sharing activities of the Secretary to develop the latest and most cutting-edge carbon capture, use, and storage technologies for the electrical and industrial sectors.