{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.capito.senate.gov/news/press-releases/video-wv-impact-capito-urges-epa-to-approve-class-vi-wells-to-deploy-carbon-capture-storage-in-wv", "VIDEO: WV Impact: Capito Urges EPA to Approve Class VI Wells to Deploy Carbon Capture, Storage in WV", "2023-11-01", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "Senate", "WV", "Shelley Moore Capito", "C001047", "www.capito.senate.gov", "capito", "https://www.capito.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "Click here or the image above to watch Ranking Member Capito discuss Class VI wells in her opening statement.\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, during a Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee hearing, Ranking Member U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to more quickly grant state primacy for Class VI and disburse funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which she fought to include for future carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) in West Virginia.\n\nVIDEO here and EXCERPT of Capito\u2019s remarks below:\n\n\u201cAnd the IIJA included $25 million to help EPA process Class VI permits and $50 million to help states obtain primacy for permitting Class VI wells, a necessary step towards broader deployment of carbon capture and storage.\n\n\u201cDespite the resources we provided in the IIJA, the EPA has not granted Class VI primacy to any state under this administration, nor has EPA granted an individual Class VI permit to store carbon dioxide since the Obama administration, with 169 Class VI wells now waiting to be permitted, under the EPA.\n\n\u201cCommercial scale deployment of carbon capture and storage, I think is vital if we are to meet our energy reliability needs while addressing emissions.\n\n\u201cThe administration must quickly review and process Class VI primacy applications from states, as well as individual permit applications for projects in states without primacy.\u201d\n\nClick HERE to watch Ranking Member Capito\u2019s opening statement.\n\nClick HERE to watch Ranking Member Capito\u2019s questions in full.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.capito.senate.gov/news/press-releases/video-wv-impact-capito-urges-epa-to-approve-class-vi-wells-to-deploy-carbon-capture-storage-in-wv"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.2188080474734306, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}