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Direct Air Capture

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Politics

Trump’s DOE Moves to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana

A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.

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.

The Oxy logo grabbing Holocene.

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.

Carbon capture and pollution.
<p>Heatmap Illustration/Getty Images</p>

When Trump enters the Oval Office again in January, there are some climate change-related programs he could roll back or revise immediately, some that could take years to dismantle, and some that may well be beyond his reach. And then there’s carbon capture and storage.

For all the new regulations and funding the Biden administration issued to reduce emissions and advance the clean energy economy over the past four years, it did little to update the regulatory environment for carbon capture and storage. The Treasury Department never clarified how the changes to the 45Q tax credit for carbon capture under the Inflation Reduction Act affect eligibility. The Department of Transportation has not published its proposal for new safety rules for pipelines that transport carbon dioxide. And the Environmental Protection Agency has yet to determine whether it will give Texas permission to regulate its own carbon dioxide storage wells, a scenario that some of the state’s own representatives advise against.

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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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