Project Will Provide $20.5M to Establish a DAC Hub in northern Mobile County, Alabama The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management announced today that it will enter negotiations with Southern States Energy Board and its partners to support the deployment of a regional direct air capture (DAC) hub in south…
Registration is now open for our 63rd Annual Meeting! Our Chair, South Carolina’s Gov. Henry McMaster, is hosting the 3-day event this September 17-19 in Greenville, South Carolina. The meeting will feature energy and environmental experts from industry, academia, state legislatures, and the federal government. The theme guiding our agenda this year is got power?…
In late May, the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations announced its intention to enter negotiations with Southern States Energy Board for our Ash Grove Foreman Cement Plant Carbon Capture and Storage project. The proposed project includes integrated CO2 capture and storage associated with cement manufacturing at the Ash Grove Foreman Cement Plant in Foreman, Arkansas….
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…
