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Direct Air Capture

Why We Need Carbon Removal
Climate 101

Why We Need Carbon Removal

Plus how it’s different from carbon capture — and, while we’re at it, carbon offsets.

Climate Tech

The Climate Tech Investor Who Won’t Touch DAC

Especially with carbon capture tax incentives on the verge of disappearing, perhaps At One Ventures founder Tom Chi is onto something.

Ideas

The Climeworks Scandal That Wasn’t

Direct air capture isn’t doing everything its advocates promised — yet. That doesn’t make it a scam.

Climate Tech

Exclusive: Occidental Petroleum Buys DAC Startup Holocene

That makes two direct air capture acquisitions for the oil and gas major.

Direct air capture.

The Government’s Carbon Removal Team Has Been Hollowed Out

Widespread federal layoffs bring even more uncertainty to the DAC hubs program.

Q&A

How Carbon Pipeline Fights Hurt Direct Air Capture

A conversation with Kajsa Hendrickson, Carbon180’s director of policy

How Carbon Pipeline Fights Hurt Direct Air Capture

This week I spoke with Kajsa Hendrickson, director of policy at Carbon180, about why they’re eager to talk about the social concerns involved in direct air capture (DAC) and how conflicts over carbon pipelines are hurting DAC projects too. We talk a lot about renewables here on The Fight but DAC is a crucial part of decarbonization and it has a host of conflicts that’ll be familiar to our readers.

The following is an abridged version of our conversation. Let’s get started…

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Technology

Google Locks in Carbon Removal at a Milestone Price: $100 a Ton

DAC startup Holocene has a novel chemistry and backing from Breakthrough Energy and Frontier Climate.

Holocene technology.
<p>Heatmap Illustration/Holocene, Getty Images</p>

Direct air capture companies are in a race to prove they can reduce the cost of removing carbon from the atmosphere down below $100 per ton. Now, one is closing in on the prize with a first-of-its-kind deal.

On Tuesday, Google announced it will pay the startup Holocene $10 million to remove 100,000 tons of carbon from the atmosphere, to be delivered “by the early 2030s.” The tech giant said the price point was made possible by the federal tax credit for carbon sequestration, and its own willingness to cough up the bulk of the funds upfront.

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