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Tech companies poured money into carbon removal projects now in Trump’s crosshairs

The silhouettes of people standing in front of a large screen that says “500,000 tonnes of CO2 is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions of from 111,000+ gasoline-powered passenger vehiclesâ€.

People gather for the groundbreaking for Oxys Direct Air Capture facility called Stratos in West Texas on Friday, April 28th, 2023. | Photo: Getty Images

The tech industry has championed the development of new technologies that filter carbon dioxide out of the air as a way to try to undo the damage caused by planet-heating emissions. Over the past several years, they’ve made a slew of splashy announcements to fund these kinds of projects, called direct air capture (DAC).

That dovetailed with the Joe Biden administration’s attempt to fight climate change by funneling federal dollars into regional hubs for DAC. Now there’s a new president in town, one who calls climate change a hoax and wants to “drill, baby, drill.” The Donald Trump administration’s latest attempts to kill clean energy and c …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/report/792812/trump-funding-cut-climate-carbon-removal-hub

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/report/792812/trump-funding-cut-climate-carbon-removal-hub

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