U.S. Congressman Dan Crenshaw Proudly Serving Texas’s 2nd Congressional District
Press Releases
Washington, July 18, 2019
Tags: Energy
WASHINGTON, DC – Representative Dan Crenshaw, joined by Representatives Cuellar (TX-28), Flores (TX-17), Gonzalez (TX-15), Lamb (PA-17), Lucas (OK-3) and Walberg (MI-7), introduced the Launching Energy Advancement and Development through Innovations for Natural Gas (LEADING) Act of 2019. The legislation prioritizes research and development funding for technology that captures carbon emissions by instructing the Department of Energy to utilize up to $50 million each year of existing funds. Ultimately, the bill seeks to develop more carbon capture technology to make it more accessible, resulting in widespread use and lower carbon emissions from power plants across the country. Yesterday, the Senate companion bill advanced out the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources with unanimous support.
“Carbon capture technology has huge potential to dramatically reduce our emissions,” said Crenshaw. “Our very own Net Power Plant, in La Porte, Texas employs this technology and has achieved zero emissions while burning enough natural gas to power 5,000 homes in the Houston area. This is an important step forward for green energy solutions that work towards our goal of lowering global emissions through clean, cheap, and exportable energy.”
“Clean, efficient, and affordable natural gas is a critical component of America’s energy portfolio,” said Science, Space and Technology Committee Ranking Member Lucas. “Modernizing energy production and reducing greenhouse gas emissions requires realistic solutions that don’t prohibit effective fuel sources and inhibit economic growth. This bill will expand early-stage research and development of carbon capture technologies to make natural gas an even cleaner energy source. I’m proud to cosponsor this bipartisan legislation that will help make carbon capture commercially viable and help strengthen and modernize America’s natural gas production.”
“We need an economically sensible solution to reducing greenhouse emissions and fighting climate change in the United States,” said Cuellar. “Carbon capture has been shown to be the best way to properly mitigate the effects of climate change, create more reliable, affordable energy, and increase economic growth. To obtain the full benefits of carbon capture, this legislation will encourage more investment and research so we can accelerate the development and commercialization of the cost-effective carbon capture technologies. I want to thank Representatives Crenshaw, Lucas, Flores, Lamb, Gonzalez and Walberg for working to tackle climate change in the United States.”
“Thanks to the dramatic increase in the use of cleaner burning natural gas and new innovations, the U.S. has the lowest emissions of any industrialized country while remaining the world’s largest economy and significant creator of jobs and economic opportunities,” said Flores. “The LEADING Act incentivizes research and development of carbon capture technologies, which will allow us to fully harness the environmental benefits of America’s vast natural gas resources and keep energy costs low for hardworking families.”
“Here in Michigan, we are leading the way on making a responsible transition to clean natural gas. This bipartisan bill would help get new innovative technologies out of the lab and into the market, providing more affordable energy options for consumers,” said Walberg.
The full text of the bill can be found here.
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Okay so what’s the correct amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and why?
And is this lower than the average for the last 600 million years and, if so, why?
As others have frequently pointed out, trying to build systems to reduce this seems to have rather more downsides than the alternative. I don’t know exactly why it’s so hard to comprehend a post-greenhouse world… apart from some people’s careers, avocations, and worldview being dependent on not comprehending it.
Luckily, even if we build some monstrous sequestration machine, we have considerable time to deal with the problem – likely millions of years. Hopefully future generations will be better at math.
Up to $50M in handouts each year to their “constituent” carbon-capture businesses.
Comment stuck in moderation somewhere. Not sure why. Didn’t use any banned words AFAIK.
Subsidies are great for enriching the subsidized.
If all the subsidies for solar panels, windmills and their associated price supports were instead spent on geothermal heat pump systems in the US, our CO2 output would be FAR lower. And the installed infrastructure would continue to reap the benefits of lower energy consumption for the approx. 40 year lifespan of the systems.
The subsidizers chose…poorly…
And that’s the problem.
My opinion of Crenshaw just tanked. I thought he had enough common sense to know that CO2 was not a pollutant. Somebody talk to him – please. Alarmists would suck all the CO2 out of the atmosphere if they could.
Clever political move. Forget New Green Deal. forget carbon tax, wind and solar subsidies, world government. It is now Clean Carbon Economy.
In politics perception is everything. Science, technology, not even economics is not so important.
So, we have renewable, natural carbon which the foundation of life on earth We use condensed coal source such power plants and direct their CO2 greenhouses where we grow tomatoes in Alaska. Then we eat the tomatoes. We can also produce diesel fuel from plastics or CO2.
Extreme left will hate this.
I really don’t believe there is any stupidity involved here. This is politics. Crenshaw has finally got his fingers in the pie and his feet on the gravy train and he really wants to climb the financial ladder through millionairdom to mega rich like all politicians. He needs two things. Money and votes.
Step 1. Throw your priniples and beliefs out of the window. Get on the latest bandwagon.
Step 2. Throw some Government money in the direction of the mega donors and the parasitic businesses. Expect in return to get donations for your next campaign to get a message out, any message you think will win more votes.
Step 3. Don’t do anything too outrageous to lose your partisan voter base. Equally true whether you are Republican or Dimwit, Conservative or Labour .
Step 4. Go to the other side just far enough to get enough floating voters to keep your edge over your political opponents.
Crenshaw is spot on. He does not give a toss about climate change any more than any other politician does. Means to an end. Get rich. Get Power.
The problem Trump has is that he was already rich and already had power so he missed step 1 .
If you want genuine stupidity look no further than the current UK Government.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble,
finding it weather it exists or not.
Misdiagnosing the problem, and
applying the wrong remedy!
Actually this is better!
“No mans life,liberty or property
are safe while the legislature is in
session”
probably this bill will never become law
if it does it will likely be amended to ‘up to $50M’ for CCS and will ultimately provide a minuscule subsidy to the natural gas industry which has employers in the districts of the sponsors
annoying but not a big deal
CO2 makes up 0.04 % of the atmosphere. Only 3% of all of the CO2 that enters the atmosphere every year is due to mankind. Even if the IPCC’s wild guess at sensitivity was correct, total elimination of the mankind portion would be lost in the round off of the temperature calculations.