House Concurrent Resolution No. by Representative Owen establishes a special task force aimed at evaluating the capacity of government, industry, and academia to model the behavior of geologically sequestered carbon dioxide. This initiative comes in light of recent legislation in Louisiana that permits carbon capture and sequestration, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granting the state primary enforcement authority over Class VI underground injection wells. The task force will assess whether a reliable method exists to predict the behavior of carbon dioxide stored underground and, if not, will create a timeline for developing such a method.

The task force will consist of key representatives from the House and Senate Committees on Natural Resources, the Department of Energy and Natural Resources, the Department of Environmental Quality, and the Louisiana Board of Regents. By July 1, 2025, the task force is required to report its initial findings regarding the existence of a modeling method that can predict the behavior of sequestered carbon dioxide with a 95% certainty. If no such method is found, the task force will outline a plan for developing and testing a new method, including cost assessments for implementation and training.