SB 1101 (Caballero) Would require the Air Resources Board to establish a Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Program to accelerate the development of new technologies to capture and sequester carbon dioxide emissions from industrial and commercial facilities. It further specifies that free “pore space” (the tiny but cumulatively voluminous spaces underground between soil or mineral grains) can be used for the storage of gaseous or liquid substances. Read the coalition Letter of Opposition. STATUS: FAILED — Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Reyes on August 31.
