Last Friday, the White House announced that it had chosen members for its Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration (CCUS) Federal Lands and Outer Continental Shelf Permitting Task Force. The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) chose our Federal Representative, Jim Powell, to sit on the task force, which was established to provide input…
Earlier this month, the Biden-Harris Administration announced it is making $250 million available to develop innovative strategies to cut climate pollution and build clean energy economies. These planning grants, through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), are the first tranche of funding going to states, local governments, Tribes, and territories from the $5 billion Climate…
A consortium spearheading development of a regional clean hydrogen hub on the U.S. Gulf Coast has received a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) encouragement letter to submit its full application for the DOE Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs funding program. The LIGH2T group consists of the Southern States Energy Board, INEOS, Linde, MPLX and 13 consortium…
Our 2022 Annual Report is now available! Click the button below to review our activities over the past year. Printed copies of the report will be available at our upcoming 62nd Annual Meeting. You can request a copy via email as well. Our Chairman’s Message from South Carolina’s Governor Henry McMaster is excerpted below: It…
Our 2022 Energy & Environment Legislative Digest is now available! The Digest collects all energy and environmental (E&E) legislation enacted by the Board’s 18 member states and territories during their 2022 legislative sessions as well as notable E&E bills from around the nation. This year, we have aggregated passed bills and posted them in an…
Registration is open for our 62nd Annual Meeting! Our Chair, South Carolina’s Gov. Henry McMaster, is hosting the 3-day event this August 28-30 in Charleston. The theme guiding our agenda for the meeting is Clean Energy: Fueling Growth & Prosperity in the South. Join us as we discuss the clean energy transition, electric mobility and innovation,…
Our 2022 Preliminary Legislative Digest is now available! The Digest collects all energy and environmental (E&E) legislation enacted by the Board’s 18 member states and territories during their 2022 legislative sessions as well as some notable E&E bills from outside our membership. For the first time, we have collected passed bills and posted them in…
Mark your calendars! Registration for our 62nd Annual Meeting will open soon. Our Chair, South Carolina’s Gov. Henry McMaster, will host the 3-day event from August 28-30 in Charleston. The theme guiding our agenda for this year is Clean Energy: Fueling Growth & Prosperity in the South. This year’s event will be hosted at the Charleston…
The 2022 edition of the Southern Mutual Radiation Assistance Plan (SMRAP) is now available for review. The document provides a mechanism for coordinating radiological emergency assistance capabilities among participating states. SMRAP is authorized under the provisions of the Southern Agreement for Mutual State Radiological Assistance, which was signed by the governors of Alabama, Florida, Georgia,…
Now more than ever, securing and processing critical minerals (CMs) and rare earth elements (REEs) is essential to the technological progress and decarbonization of the nation’s energy grid. China controls more than 80 percent of the world’s REEs—an imbalance that threatens U.S. energy independence and technological innovation. Critical minerals, as defined by the US Geological…
