Carbon Capture Utilization & Storage

The School of Energy Resources is proud to have some of the most passionate and cited faculty at UW. For example, Professor Righetti has been an influential legal expert in the Rocky Mountain region, tackling research across the energy spectrum in hydrogen, nuclear, fossil fuel and renewable energy generation, land use and decarbonization. A prolific writer, Righetti has published peer-reviewed articles in leading law journals both nationally and internationally. Her scholarship is regularly cited for her aptitude and excellence related to policy and regulatory aspects of CCUS, particularly the storage of CO2 in the subsurface and especially in federal pore space — a topic of significance to Wyoming. Regularly sought for her expertise and aid on major energy and carbon storage projects nationwide, she is a renowned expert on U.S. energy law. In 2018, she was appointed as a trustee-at-large with the Foundation (fka the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation). Professor Righetti spent the 2021/2022 academic year in Lille, France as a Fulbright Scholar where she conducted a comparative study of energy, industrial and workforce transition policies in Wyoming and France, and she was recently appointed to serve on the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) task force for Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration (CCUS) Federal Lands and Outer Continental Shelf Permitting Task Force. In her capacity, she will provide recommendations to the federal government on how to ensure that CCUS projects, including carbon dioxide pipelines, are permitted in an efficient manner, reflect the input and needs of a wide range of stakeholders, and deliver benefits rather than harms to local communities. As you can see, at SER you really do learn from the best!