White House eco council at odds over technology central to Biden's green goals

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White House eco council at odds over technology central to Biden's green goals
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Members of a White House environmental justice council, which is tasked with advising the president on climate issues, have taken hardline stances against a key green technology.

Former EPA Chief of Staff Mandy Gunasekara prepares to testify at a House hearing on the president's agenda.

Carbon capture and storage technology — which involves separating CO2 emissions at fossil fuel-fired power plants and industrial factories before transporting that gas via pipeline into a deep underground cavern where it is stored forever — is at the center of the Environmental Protection Agency's recentThe EPA's plan — proposed in May and which the agency expects to slash emissions by about 617 million metric tons through 2042 — forces electric power providers to slash pollution by...

President Joe Biden talks to EPA Administrator Michael Regan during a White House environmental justice event earlier this year.

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