Biden administration looking to capture carbon from gas and manufacturing

The Biden administration intends to focus more on capturing the carbon emissions of natural gas plants and industrial manufacturing facilities than from coal-fired power, a top Energy Department official said.

It’s a shift for the federal government’s carbon capture program, which, until recently, has spent significant funds and resources on attaching carbon capture to power plants, especially coal. The Trump administration saw the technology as a lifeline for coal-fired power, whereas the Biden administration views it as essential to decarbonize harder-to-abate sectors of the economy, such as steel, chemical, and cement production.