Leave carbon capture to the private sector
What the document says“CCUS programs should be left to the private sector to develop.”
Carbon capture, utilization and storage removes carbon dioxide from emissions or the air for storage or use. The chapter states that despite the expansion of the 45Q tax credit to $87 per ton most such technology remains economically unviable, and that if the office continues any research it should focus more on innovative utilization.
What the document actually says“CCUS programs should be left to the private sector to develop.”
Let firms build this on their own. The government should step back.
Carbon capture traps carbon before it reaches the air. The book says it costs too much to work. It says firms should pay for it, not taxpayers.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed leaves carbon capture, utilization and storage to the private sector or ends the Energy Department's work on it. The nearest candidate, a Federal Highway Administration rule of April 18, 2025, repeals the requirement that state transportation departments and metropolitan planning organizations set declining carbon dioxide targets and report progress. It is about highway emissions reporting, not about capture technology or the office that funds it. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.