Jun 11, 2022

Can Carbon Capture Be Part of the Climate Solution? (Published 2022)

Jennifer Wilcox, who has a leading role in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, says yes, though there are significant challenges.

Jan 18, 2021

Businesses Aim to Pull Greenhouse Gases From the Air. It’s a Gamble. (Published 2021)

A surge of corporate money could soon transform carbon removal from science fiction to reality. But there are risks: The very idea could offer industry an excuse to maintain dangerous habits.

FootPrint Coalition
Oct 29, 2022

Billions of dollars are coming for carbon capture projects, but they’re not all created equally

The I-10 interstate corridor that passes through Mobile, Alabama, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana and on past Houston, Texas is one of the major arteries of the petrochemical industry. Chemical companies from dozens of countries have plants along the interstate and oil companies including Exxon, Chevron, Occidental Petroleum, Saudi Aramco and others all have refineries dotting the Gulf Coast off of the highway. It’s along this stretch of land that the U.S.-based oil industry hopes to buil

Bloomberg.com
Jan 11, 2022

Biden’s $3.5 Billion Bet on Carbon Capture Was the Easy Part

Now the U.S. has to take a billion tons of CO ‚‚ from the air each year €”and get the cost down to $100 a ton.