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Almost five years after a pipeline It stems from toxic gas Through a city in Mississippi, the Federal Organizers began to be ready in recent weeks to establish new safety rules aimed at preventing similar incidents via the carbon dioxide network in the United States.
However, the proposed rules, which were revealed five days before the end of Joe Biden’s presidency, came out quietly during the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term.
The official of the unauthorized federal pipelines said that the proposed rules were “withdrawn” according to January 20. Executive order This freezes all suspended regulations and begins the review process by the newly appointed agency leaders in Trump. Putting the pipeline bases in another case is a February 19 Executive Order It aims to eradicate all high regulations to “private parties” and obstruct economic development.
Trump’s choice of driving pipeline and dangerous materials, or PhMSA, which has proposed the rules, is Paul Roberti, a lawyer supported by the pipe and power industry groups. Ashraf Roberti, who is awaiting the Senate’s assertion, on the PHMSA safety application during the first period of Trump, time It is characterized by lower reduction than the smaller categories and fines From Obama and Biden departments.
The advocates of the safety lines are still hoping to push the Trump administration to agree to the rules, which they say are very important in reducing the risk of deadly accidents through an increasing number of countries.
“Not yet died,” said Paul Blackburn, Energy Policy Adviser to the Bold Alliance, an environmental group that tracks the development of pipelines. “Trump can repeat, and I think the Trump administration should be subjected to doing so.”
More than 5,000 miles of carbon dioxide lines in the United States are used primarily to recover the improvement, which is the carbon dioxide pumping process into old oil reserves to pressure the fees for food residue. A lot of current growth and expected growth of CO2 pipeline is linked to the last prosperity in carbon capture techniques, which allow industrial factories to store CO2 under the ground instead of launching them in the air.
The network of carbon dioxide lines can lead 66,000 miles-an increase of thirteen times-by 2050, according to Princeton University, which is led by Princeton University Ticket.
Trump administration does not support carbon capture, however Industry experts say that growth will continue While companies try to meet climate standards at the state level.
While supporters say that carbon capture will help treat climate change, the transmission of compressed carbon dioxide comes at risk, especially for rural extensions in the Middle West and the Gulf coast, where the network is concentrated.
Carbon dioxide can cause sleepiness, suffocation, and sometimes death. Non -smelling, heavier, heavier than air, can travel carbon dioxide without discovery and with deadly concentrations at great distances.
The proposed rules will create designing, installation and first maintenance requirements for carbon dioxide lines. Working companies will need to provide training to local police and fire departments on how to respond to carbon dioxide leaks, and emergency communication with the public will need to improve it.
The operators will be asked to plan the gas versions that can harm people two miles from the pipeline. The proposed rules indicate that PHMSA finally realizes that threats from carbon dioxide lines differ from oil and natural gas pipelines, which can leak, burn or explode, but they are not usually exposed to people miles away.
“These are relatively strong proposals,” he said. “Do these bases make carbon dioxide lines completely safe? No. But it will update the pipelines.”
PHMSA currently has no specific criteria for transporting carbon dioxide. The rules governing the network of carbon dioxide lines have not been subjected to a major review since 1991, according to the fund.
PHMSA officials said in a advertisement On January 15.
The rupture of the small community was forced 30 miles northwest of Jackson about 200 Satartia’s residents to evacuate. Emergency respondents found that people had gone out, confused, and struggled to breathe. At least 45 people were treated in nearby hospitals.
“I have learned directly from the affected societies in the Mississippi state and through America. Why do we need standards for the integrity of the strongest carbon dioxide lines,” said Biden, who is Biden, in a statement issued in his statement on January 15, “These new requirements will be the strongest and most comprehensive criteria for transporting carbon dioxide in the world and will determine us in Our path.
The cross versions of CO2 pipelines have occurred 76 times since 2010, according to the phmsa data reviewed by Verite News. Of more than 67,000 barrels of carbon dioxide, which has been released over the past fifteen years, the vast majority – about 54,000 barrels – came from the pipelines owned by Denbury Inc. pipelines.
Denbury runs 925 miles pipelines that failed in SATARTIA and recently in southwest Louisiana. Last April, a pipeline was torn at a pump station in Denberry near the town of Colvur in the diocese of Calacio, It leads to the closure of shelter roads and consulting in place. Some residents have reported that they are tired and light, but the local authorities have not reached any serious diseases.
The pump station and pipeline are not equipped with warning devices or other methods to alert the residents close to accidents.
Many residents of the sulfur area said they had not received any leakage notice or were aware of it through Facebook posts more than an hour after the spread of gas.
“There should be warnings, and the entire society should have been notified,” said Ruisita Ozan, the community organizer who lives near the station. “I don’t trust our system at all.”
Kenneth Clarkson, director of communications at the fund, said unless the proposed rules are enacted, there are likely to have similar or worse accidents.
“In the absence of al -Qaeda, the blatant organizational deficiency will remain, leaving the public completely at risk of carbon dioxide lines,” he said.
