In a Bid to Save Its Coal Industry, Wyoming Has Become a Test Case for Carbon Capture, but Utilities are Balking at the Pricetag Under a 2020 law, utilities must generate some of their power from coal plants fitted with technology that captures carbon, but in recent filings to regulators, two companies are warning about the cost and environmental impacts. 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
Occidental is Eyeing California’s Clean Fuels Market to Fund Texas Carbon Removal Plant By Nicholas Kusnetz
Fossil Fuel Companies Stand to Make Billions From Tax Break in Democrats’ Build Back Better Bill 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
A Lifeline for a Coal Plant Gives Hope to a North Dakota Town. Others See It as a Boondoggle By Dan Gearino
Exxon Touts Carbon Capture as a Climate Fix, but Uses It to Maximize Profit and Keep Oil Flowing By Nicholas Kusnetz