In addition: Coal might be dying in the US, but not yet globally (or at least not fast enough) and CCS is also useful for gas w/CCS, blue hydrogen, and carbon removal, all of which could be/are definitely important so there are plenty of reasons to be excited about 45Q even at the risk of marginal emissions increases in some edge cases.
I don’t know how to contextualize your statement that 45Q is worth supporting “even at risk of marginal emissions increases in some edge cases” given your own report. CATF’s report “Carbon Capture & Storage in The United States Power Sector” which only considers coal and gas power production CCS was a primary input to your cost-effectiveness model of CCS globally (page 117 and footnote 35 of your Nov 21 report “A guide to the changing landscape of high-impact climate philanthropy”). I don’t see how this is either a “marginal emissions increase” or “edge case” when it was the primary justification for CATF to support 45Q at the $85/ton level. Have you significantly changed your cost-effectiveness model for CCS since you released your report in November?
We can have some nuance about 45Q here. Why not just say to CATF “lobby for only industrial CCS, keep the level at $30-$40/ton, and don’t lobby to remove the 75% capture requirement”?
Agree with Dan here.
In addition: Coal might be dying in the US, but not yet globally (or at least not fast enough) and CCS is also useful for gas w/CCS, blue hydrogen, and carbon removal, all of which could be/are definitely important so there are plenty of reasons to be excited about 45Q even at the risk of marginal emissions increases in some edge cases.
I don’t know how to contextualize your statement that 45Q is worth supporting “even at risk of marginal emissions increases in some edge cases” given your own report. CATF’s report “Carbon Capture & Storage in The United States Power Sector” which only considers coal and gas power production CCS was a primary input to your cost-effectiveness model of CCS globally (page 117 and footnote 35 of your Nov 21 report “A guide to the changing landscape of high-impact climate philanthropy”). I don’t see how this is either a “marginal emissions increase” or “edge case” when it was the primary justification for CATF to support 45Q at the $85/ton level. Have you significantly changed your cost-effectiveness model for CCS since you released your report in November?
We can have some nuance about 45Q here. Why not just say to CATF “lobby for only industrial CCS, keep the level at $30-$40/ton, and don’t lobby to remove the 75% capture requirement”?