Biden’s Climate Law Solved A Major Problem With A Polarizing Fossil Fuel Technology

Photo caption: A Shell employee walks through the company’s new Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada, last October. Photo credit: Todd Korol via Reuters. Article by Alexander C. Kaufman. HuffPost – October 18, 2022.

For years now, the United States has had the technology to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks before the planet-heating gas enters the atmosphere. But carbon capture and storage hardware proved so expensive and clunky that one of the only ways to make a so-called CCS investment pencil out was to sell the CO2 to oil drillers, who inject the supercooled gas into wells to get at hard-to-reach crude. […]

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