Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide - Cadmus The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program is responsible for regulating the construction, operation, permitting, and closure of injection wells that place fluids underground for storage or disposal. Cadmus supported EPA as it developed a proposed rule on geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) on a nearly unprecedented nine-month schedule that the EPA manager described as a state of “perpetual emergency.” Challenge: Geologic sequestration reduces CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere by injecting CO 2 captured from an emission source, such as a power plant, into deep subsurface rock formations for long-term storage rather than releasing it into the atmosphere. In October 2007, the EP

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