From policy to possibility: How CCUS is moving from talk to action
Interchange Recharged
Wood Mackenzie
4.8 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Recorded live on day two of Wood Mackenzie’s CCUS Conference in Houston, this episode of Interchange Recharged explores how carbon capture is advancing from state-level regulation to real-world innovation and global market trends.
Host Sylvia Leyva Martinez begins with Lily Barkau, Groundwater Section Manager at the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, who explains how Wyoming became one of the first states to secure Class VI primacy and why local leadership is key to building trust, speeding up permitting, and ensuring long-term stewardship of CO₂ storage.
Next, Katherine Hough of GEVO connects policy with practice, describing how her team links biogenic CO₂, carbon sequestration, and sustainable aviation fuel to create a truly circular carbon economy. Her insights show how business models, not just technology, are making carbon management commercially viable.
Finally, Sylvia sits down with Ed Crooks, Vice Chair, Americas at Wood Mackenzie and host of Energy Gang, for a wide-angle look at how policy clarity, AI-driven demand, and global energy dynamics are shaping the next phase of CCUS.
From permitting to project finance to public perception, this on-the-ground episode captures the collaborative energy driving carbon capture forward—and marks a rare crossover between Wood Mackenzie’s two flagship podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Interchange Recharge Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | We're recording live on the last day of Wood McKenzie's CCUS conference here in Houston. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Suvial Leva Martinez, and today we're bringing you conversations from three brilliant voices shaping the future of carbon management. |
| 0:17.0 | From the state-level regulators paving the way for new projects, to the innovators |
| 0:22.4 | turning captured CO2 into low-carbon fuels, and finally, to one of Wood McKenzie's own dot leaders |
| 0:28.5 | putting it all together into global context. We'll get started with Lilly Barkow, Groundwater |
| 0:33.9 | Section Manager in the Water Quality Division at the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. |
| 0:39.3 | Lily explains how Wyoming became one of the first states to achieve plastics primacy, |
| 0:44.3 | what that means for project developers, and why having local expertise matters when it comes to permitting and long-term stewardship. |
| 0:51.5 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:53.5 | Wood McKenzie's Solar Energy and Storage Summit is back in Denver on the 29th and 30th of April |
| 0:59.4 | 26. |
| 1:00.8 | It's co-located with the brand new North American Power and Renewables Forum, which features |
| 1:05.9 | senior speakers from across the U.S. power sector. |
| 1:09.2 | Come and join over 450 senior leaders from U.S. power sector. Come and join over 450 senior leaders |
| 1:11.6 | from U.S. power developers, utilities, |
| 1:14.6 | and independent power producers |
| 1:16.6 | to tackle the industry's biggest challenges. |
| 1:19.6 | From navigating life after tax credits |
| 1:21.6 | to capturing the load growth boom, |
| 1:23.6 | discover how the energy mix is evolving |
| 1:26.6 | and how the U.S. is going to meet that power |
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