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Carbon Removal Projects Leap Forward With New Offset Deal. Will They Actually Help the Climate?

Finance and insurance giants hope to offset their carbon emissions with “direct air capture” from a plant in Texas and smokestack carbon capture from Midwestern ethanol plants that would rely on a pipeline that may never be completed.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A rendering of a planned direct air capture plant in Texas that would initially pull 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air annually. Occidental Petroleum, which is planning to build the plant, would use some or most of the carbon dioxide it captures to pump more oil out of depleted reservoirs. Credit: Carbon Engineering
Tree plantings in Sand Martin Wood in Faugh near Carlisle, Cumbria, U.K. Credit: Ashley Cooper/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images

Countries Want to Plant Trees to Offset Their Carbon Emissions, but There Isn’t Enough Land on Earth to Grow Them

By Katie Surma

Fires smolder and burn in the mountains west of Paisley, Oregon. Credit: Maranie Staab/Bloomberg via Getty Images

US Forest Fires Threaten Carbon Offsets as Company-Linked Trees Burn

By Camilla Hodgson, Financial Times

The Trinity River in the southern Klamath Mountains in California. Credit: Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images

The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere

By Lisa Song, ProPublica, and James Temple, MIT Technology Review

Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, or CORSIA—aims to offset any growth in emissions from international flights after 2020. Credit: Jason O'Halloran/Flickr

Crushed by Covid-19, Airlines Lobby for a Break on Emissions Offsets

By Kristoffer Tigue

Passengers leaving JetBlue aircraft Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Could the Flight Shaming Movement Take Off in the U.S.? JetBlue Thinks So.

By Kristoffer Tigue

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