Extensive research and development is being undertaken by the utility industry to address future carbon-related constraints and evolving air quality regulations while providing affordable, reliable, and sustainable electricity. In particular, new fossil-fuel power plant designs, including new combinations of fuels and emissions control technologies, are areas of high activity. This includes the development and commercialization of solvents and sorbents for post-combustion CO2 capture. With these new materials and processes comes the potential for emissions of new chemicals or known chemicals at modified emission rates, and environmental, occupational and community health impacts. An understanding of the potential human and environmental impacts of amine solvents used in carbon capture and storage (CCS) has become increasingly more important as more of these technologies are moving to the pilot stage of development and will be more regularly operated. However, the evaluation of such impacts is complicated by several issues, including the early stage of technology and solvent development, the limited number of pilot facilities, the proprietary nature of many of the solvents, and the lack of validated sampling and analytical methods to determine the amount, type, and impacts of solvent degradation, both within the technology and in the atmosphere after emission.