State Sen. Josh Carnley (R–Ino) and State Rep. Matthew Hammett (R–Andalusia) announced on Tuesday their joint opposition to the proposed Pine Hills Carbon Storage Hub, a carbon capture and underground injection project planned for southern Covington County by Reliant Carbon Capture & Storage.

Hammett has prefiled HB 64, a local constitutional amendment to ban all Class V and Class VI EPA Carbon Storage sites from Covington County, which Carnley plans to carry in the State Senate next session.

"We're not going to allow this project to come to Covington County to be a testing ground for experimental carbon storage projects. This is a cash grab for bogus carbon credits — it's more of the typical waste, fraud and abuse we've seen with the majority of projects such as this," Carnley said. "We

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