At a Global Conference on Clean Energy, Granholm Announces Billions in Federal Aid for Carbon Capture and Emerging Technology Outside the meeting in Pittsburgh, environmental activists denounced the technique for capturing carbon emissions from smokestacks, calling it an expensive diversion that would promote the continued extraction of oil and gas. By Katie Surma
Exxon’s Long-Shot Embrace of Carbon Capture in the Houston Area Just Got Massive Support from Congress By Nicholas Kusnetz
In a Bid to Save Its Coal Industry, Wyoming Has Become a Test Case for Carbon Capture, but Utilities are Balking at the Pricetag By Nicholas Kusnetz
Proponents Say Storing Captured Carbon Underground Is Safe, But States Are Transferring Long-Term Liability for Such Projects to the Public By Nicholas Kusnetz
Biggest “Direct Air Capture” Plant Starts Pulling in Carbon, But Involves a Fraction of the Gas in the Atmosphere By Leslie Hook, Financial Times
Fossil Fuel Companies Are Quietly Scoring Big Money for Their Preferred Climate Solution: Carbon Capture and Storage By Nicholas Kusnetz
With Trump Gone, Old Fault Lines in the Climate Movement Reopen, Complicating Biden’s Path Forward By Marianne Lavelle
For a Climate-Concerned President and a Hostile Senate, One Technology May Provide Common Ground By Nicholas Kusnetz