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California Resources Corporation

As a Major California Oil Producer Eyes Carbon Storage, Thousands of Idle Wells Await Cleanup

The state’s taxpayers may be left with a big bill.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Oil wells and pump jacks sit idle at the California Resources Corporation facility in Huntington Beach. Credit: Citizen of the Planet//Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Sonia Sanchez, a notary in Buttonwillow, California, has helped organize local opposition to a proposed carbon storage project in Kern County. Credit: Joshua Yeager/KVPR

Proposals to Build California’s First Carbon Storage Facilities Face a Key Test

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Inside Climate News and Joshua Yeager, KVPR

Oil pumpjacks dot the landscape on the outskirts of Taft, Kern County, California. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

California’s Oil Country Hopes Carbon Management Will Provide Jobs. It May Be Disappointed

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Joshua Yeager

An oil pumpjack in Kern County, California. Credit: Harika Maddala

California’s Oil Country Faces an ‘Existential’ Threat. Kern County Is Betting on the Carbon Removal Industry to Save It

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Inside Climate News, and Joshua Yeager, KVPR

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