Storing CO2 And Lowering Emissions Act

Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Storing CO2 And Lowering Emissions Act” or the “SCALE Act”.

Table of contents— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

the industrial sector is integral to the economy of the United States, providing millions of jobs, essential products, and demonstrating global leadership in manufacturing and innovation;

carbon capture and storage technologies are necessary for reducing hard-to-abate emissions from the industrial sector, which emits nearly one quarter of the United States carbon dioxide emissions;

carbon removal and storage technologies, including direct air capture, must be deployed at large-scale in the coming decades to remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere;

large-scale deployment of carbon capture, removal, utilization, transport, and storage is critical for achieving mid-century climate goals and will drive regional economic development, technological innovation, and high-wage employment;

carbon capture, removal, and utilization technologies require a backbone system of shared carbon dioxide transport and storage infrastructure to enable large-scale deployment, realize economies of scale, and create an interconnected carbon management market;

carbon dioxide transport infrastructure and permanent geological storage are proven and safe technologies with existing Federal and State regulatory frameworks;

carbon dioxide transport and storage infrastructure share similar barriers to deployment previously faced by other types of critical national infrastructure, such as high capital costs and chicken-and-egg challenges, that require Federal and State support, in combination with private investment, to be overcome; and

each State should take into consideration, with respect to new carbon dioxide transportation infrastructure—