# Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/how-a-tiny-company-that-produces-oil-captured-the-imagination-of-big-tech-to-fight-climate-change/
- Published: 2021-05-21T09:45:06-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Illustration: Grist / Amelia Bates. Article by Emily Pontecorvo. Grist – May 18, 2021. How Charm Industrial became a go-to in Big Tech’s mission to offset its carbon footprint. Shaun Meehan was burned out. It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Sitting in their tiny conference room, nicknamed the “Pineapple Room” for a tropical rug that covered the floor, in the summer of 2019, he and his co-founders faced their primary investor to deliver a grim update. […] Click here to view original web page at grist.org