Comment from ClearPath
ClearPathSupportAdvocacy
Summary: ClearPath, a nonprofit organization focused on clean energy and advanced manufacturing, supports PHMSA's efforts to modernize and update repair requirements for hazardous liquid and gas pipelines, specifically highlighting the need for updated CO2 pipeline standards. They argue that modernizing these regulations is essential for supporting the expansion of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) infrastructure and ensuring energy security.
ClearPath appreciates the opportunity to submit a comment in response to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s (PHMSA) Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on repair criteria for hazardous liquid and gas transmission pipelines. ClearPath's mission is to accelerate American innovation to reduce global energy emissions. To advance that mission, we develop cutting-edge policy solutions on clean energy and advanced manufacturing innovation. An entrepreneurial, strategic nonprofit, ClearPath collaborates with public and private sector stakeholders on innovations in carbon capture, nuclear energy, hydropower, natural gas, geothermal, energy storage, and advanced manufacturing to enable private-sector deployment of critical technologies.
Please see the attached document for ClearPath's full response. Thank you for the opportunity to comment.